Hi, On 11/02/2012 1:10 PM, James Harper wrote:
"Enterprise" drives don't normally cost that much more, although looking at the prices right now they are quite a bit more expensive at the moment from at least one of our suppliers.
Drive pricing was severely effected by the Thailand floods. There is enough price differential between standard and enterprise drives, but the standard ones come with lesser warranty -- I think it is better to choose enterprise ALWAYS, just due to the warranty period extension. If the warranty is longer, then it should follow that the drive is more reliable and can be trusted more easily (aside from the "use" type settings). SCSI was the enterprise type drive of the past, now it is SAS over SATA, but only very generally .... SATA has many more options and is less pricey than SAS. If you want to compare standard drives to enterprise SAS drives [or even enterprise SATA against enterprise SAS], well the price differential is much greater. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP Current Land Line No: 03 9012 2102 Mobile: 04 2574 1827 Fax: 03 9012 2178 National No: 1300 85 3804 Affinity Vision Australia Pty Ltd http://www.affinityvision.com.au http://adsl2choice.net.au In Case of Emergency -- http://www.affinityvision.com.au/ice.html