"enterprise" drives

[Scott R. Ehrlich]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Tom Metro wrote:

> 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.

Despite capacity, what are people's thoughts on the newer solid state 
drives?

Scott

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