On 7/2/11, John Obaterspok <john.obaterspok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Any recommendation for what SATA drives to get? Should I get > enterprise drives that support TLER (or alike), or will the greener > low cost drives be enough, is there something in between? > > Is it better to buy 4 low cost drives in RAID1 or 3 enterprise drives in > RAID5? If you can afford either, I would personally recommend 4 low cost drives in RAID 1. Since the drives are mirror, recovery is straightforward and risk free. You could even put them in removable enclosures and do backup simply by swapping out one drive of each array. Try to get drives from different manufacturers. You don't want to face the kind of nightmares some of us had when/if there was a batch/model problem, RAID can't help if all your drives brick or fail at the same time due to the same problem. -- 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
