[geeks] Enterprise SATA hard drive recommendations

[Nathan Raymond]

This is relevant to this conversation, and an interesting read:

http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/12/04/enterprise-drive-reliability/

Regarding 'consumer' SATA drives, the biggest factor when using them in a
RAID is error recovery control and whether or not the model of SATA drive
you are buying has been intentionally crippled by the manufacturer to not
work well in a RAID by removing (or disabling) that feature from the
firmware.  This wikipedia article covers the topic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_recovery_control

- Nate