[geeks] R720 NAS, continued

[Phil Stracchino]

On 1/18/22 10:15, Mark Benson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yeah I paid extra on both our Dell R-series 1Us specifically to get 3.5b

> drives. Their 2.5b
 options were either too small, fast and super-expensive
> or the right size (multi-TB) amd specs suggesting theybd be painfully slow.
> 
> I guess 2.5b
 is fine if you can afford to drop $500 a drive for 2TB drives
> that actually keep up.


I'm hoping this'll tide me over until SSD prices drop a bit further. 
Hopefully this will be the last set of spinning-rust drives I ever have 
to buy.



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