On 2/6/2012 9:24 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > 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). Newegg seems to have nine 7.2k Deskstar models in stock, cond new, from 500GB to 3TB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007603+50001984+600003340&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Configurator=&IsNodeId=1&Subcategory=14&description=&hisInDesc=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&AdvancedSearch=1&srchInDesc= As of the date/time of this email, here's a spattering of the 9 available and their order qty limitations: H3IK30003272SW (0S03208) 3TB qty: 20 HUA723020ALA640 (0F12455) 2TB qty: 5 H3IK20003272SP (0S02861) 2TB qty: 20 HDS723020BLA642 (0f12115) 2TB qty: 20 HDS721010DLE630 (0F13180) 1TB qty: 100 7K1000.C 0F10383 1TB qty: 20 The HDS721010DLE630 1TB model looks pretty attractive if one needs spindle count IOPS more than total capacity. And needs more than 20 drives. -- Stan -- 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
