[mythtv-users] How is this pricing possible?

[Ben Kamen]

On 2/22/2011 9:18 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Matt Emmott"<memmott at gmail.com>
>
>> Not to mention that consumer-grade HDDs and server-grade HDDs are different
>> animals (although I guess I don't know what you're running). We go through
>> somewhere between 2 and 4 hard drives per week at my work out of I don't
>> know, 2000 drives. And that's in a temperature / humidity / power
>> controlled data center.
>
> I keep saying it, and everyone keeps telling me I'm full of crap:
>
> There is a *reason* why Enterprise-grade SCSI-80 and SAS drives cost
> *six times* per Gig what consumer SATA drives do.
>
> And that's based on 25 years of professional, commercial, anecdotal
> experience.  :-)

I've been watching this and other threads about Consumer grade drives.

I currently have a Dlink NAS I like very much that's currently using 250GB drives so far with no problems...
But from this list especially, I've been worried abou upgrading to the mega drives because of failure rates.

Meanwhile, I have some older SCSI SCA-80pin drives in Compaq Servers (IBM Mechanisms) that have been spinning forever.

(granted, sans the DeathStar line now that Hitachi owns it)

It definitely has me scratching my head as how to upgrade stuff without clobbering my wallet.

  -Ben