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Hard Drives Made for RAID Use

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the little-spinny-different dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Hard drive giant Western Digital recently released a very interesting product, hard drives designed to work in a RAID. The Caviar RE SATA 320 GB is an enterprise level drive without native command queueing and uses an SATA interface. In works better in RAID than other drives because of features like its time-limited error recovery and 32-bit CRC error checking, so it is an option when previously only SCSI drives would be considered."

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  1. This is ridiculous! by Cerdic · · Score: 4, Funny

    If they would stop eating around the hard drives, leaving crumbs in them, we wouldn't need to use Raid to take care of the cockroaches in them. Ugh.

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  2. Re:Typo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It works better it RAID... No, that doesn't work either.

  3. Re:Typo! by Basje · · Score: 3, Funny

    You case insensitive clod!

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  4. Re:SATA version may be new, but features are not n by Mechcozmo · · Score: 2, Funny
    I bought one to replace what I thought was a bad drive in a RAID configuration about a year ago.

    "Yeah, boss... drive, uh, died. I'll get a nice new one-- let me... uh... take this one home. I think it's, y'know, dead. Honestly this time."