[geeks] Enterprise SATA hard drive recommendations

Jonathan Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Mon Dec 2 21:01:31 CST 2013


On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:

> Personally, I have never paid extra for Enterprise, and have used mostly
> software RAID and ZFS setups.

This is good thinking, however remember to use ECC[0] memory in the boxes
doing your software RAID.


[0] Something that's getting ridiculously expensive to do if you're
     running Intel.  AMD still understands this, thankfully.
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