I wish that were true... I think you misread the same spec sheet I saw, which listed it (cleverly) as 10 in 10^16. The spec is indeed 1 in 10^15 as shown in their datasheet:...
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I wish that were true... I think you misread the same spec sheet I saw, which listed it (cleverly) as 10 in 10^16. The spec is indeed 1 in 10^15 as shown in their datasheet:...
Most end users (not companies) here aren't building arrays for high-throughput database work, but Write-Once Read Many (WORM) media storage arrays. Even with significant daily throughput the...
Personally, for many years, ever since I discovered the difference between consumer and RE/Enterprise drives, I've never bought a consumer-class drive or installed one for my friends or at work. I'm...
There's been a couple of reviews on Anandtech recently about new 6TB drives in consumer-class and enterprise variants: eg. http://anandtech.com/show/8263/6-tb-nas-drives-wd-red-seagate-ec-hgst-he ...