On Mar 21, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is true. The only real difference between the blacks and the 'enterprise' drives, is that the firmware isn't crippled. No, another difference is the RE drives have another order magnitude lower URE. So they're statistically more reliable. And they don't have the implicit proscription to not use them in RAID other than 1 and 0. Chris Murphy-- 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