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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. Slashdot: Stories Made For Ad Use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sheesh, this is a VERY thinly disguised ad. Here's a direct link to NewEgg $169. Has the same details as this "story."

  2. Sal Cangeloso is a moron by laing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The manufacturer specifically says to only use these in a RAID-1 configuration (mirroring). They have a reason for this: The error recovery mechanisim is abbreviated. So what does Sal do... He connects two drives in a RAID-0 configuration. Now his data reliability has gone to about 1/4 of a regular drive.