[Pc_Support] Western Digital Enterprise 250 GB <pde; wd2500js

[Damien McKenna]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Not even warranty is an indicator of "enterprise-rated" or not.  E.g.,
> just because Seagate offers a consumer-rated 5x8 Barracuda 7200.x with
> a 5-year warranty does _not_ make it an enterprise-rated 24x7
> Barracuda ES.

I wouldn't want to specifically draw a correlation between the two, but
from a business perspective I'd feel safer buying a drive that came with
a 5 year warranty than a 1 or 3 year.  Couple that with RAID-1 or RAID-5
and you've got 5 years of data assurance - no guarantee but pretty darn
good.

BTW, three months ago we bought three 74gb Hitachi enterprise SCSI
drives.  One died within a month.  Thankfully we had it on RAID-5, but
you can betcha we got an extra hot-spare to match the set.

-- 
Damien McKenna, husband, father, geek.
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