"enterprise" drives

[Tom Metro]

John Abreau wrote:
> I've lost enough data from drive failures to convince me it's worth
> the extra money to get better drives. ... at the moment, a 1 TB
> Barracuda NS series is $229, and a 1 TB Barracuda AS series is $139.

For non-professional use, the drive that costs twice as much would need 
to be so reliable that you forgo the use of RAID, otherwise it wouldn't 
be worth paying twice as much. That assuming the cheaper drives aren't 
so unreliable that multiple failures in a short span of time are highly 
probable.

  -Tom

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