On 2012-02-07, Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I understand the constraints, as I pinch pennies at home and at the > office (I own my engineering firm). I've made do with cheap desktop > drives that do support ERC. I got burned when Seagate dropped ERC on > their latest desktop drives. Hitachi Deskstar is the only affordable > model on the market that still support ERC. I can testify that the EARS/EADS drives can be troublesome (see my recent threads on the list). I also found out that apparently the flooding in Thailand is delaying all drive vendors' enterprise drives-- they seem to be one of the few factories that make an essential part, and their factories are all underwater. Have others had success with mdraid and the Deskstar drives? I wouldn't mind saving a little money if the drives will actually work, especially if I can get them in before April (the earliest one vendor thinks they might be able to start building drives again). --keith -- kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
