On Wednesday 09 October 2002 00:27, David U. wrote: > Hi friends, > > I was just wondering what the most current opinions were with regard to > 5400 vs 7200 RPM drives. > > Also, have people been happy with the Western Digital 100gig Special > Edition drives? > > What are other people using? I have two servers with 16 IBM 120gigs each, and they mostly work. One disk went boom the other day, but that's expected - I mean - one out of 32 drives in half a year isn't that bad The choice between 5,4 and 7,2 is to be taken on behalf of the seek time needed. seek times on 5,4 drives are substantially slower... roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester ProntoTV AS - http://www.pronto.tv/ Tel: +47 9801 3356 Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
