On Mar 25, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Andrew Dunn wrote: > Recently Dell is selling their WD20EARS (2TB) for 90$ > > This being one of the best PPG (Price Per Gigabyte) snatches I have > seen, I was considering buying 8 of them for an mdadm array. > > Has anyone had experience with these drives? > > Note, they have 4K sectors. > > Thank you for your kind responses. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html This is a low-cost consumer disk that is rated for a whole 2400 hours use in a year. You get what you pay for. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html