Enterprise class HD worth it?
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- xcreonx
I am just curious of anyone has any experience with enterprise-class hard drives? I am looking to get a few Hitachi 1tb drives. Just wondering if it's worth the extra $50 each to get more reliability. I do backup everyday. They won't be in a RAID setup.
Any thoughts on enterprise-class drives?
Thanks in advance.
- ribit0
If not much more expensive then I'd go for it, but all drives fail, and your backup strategy should assume that will happen...
I bought 4 WD 1TB drives (to use in RAID5), chose them mainly because of reviews that said they were the quietest (important for home setup).
- Machuse0
memory is cheap - and transfer speed are fast.
$50 will buy you half of another terabyte drive - so just by 2 of your favorite terabytes and backup to 2 drives.
Of course $50 aint nothin - maybe buy 2 enterprise drives? - ok that's not helping - just buy the regular ones - the enterprise will stil fail unexpectedly - just later on.
- xcreonx0
Yeah I guess my thought was the drives will still fail and they aren't any faster so I'll probably go with the standard drives. I have a redundant backup already so I suppose the extra "reliability" isn't much of a concern. I was worried I was missing something about the enterprise-class drives.
Thanks
- you would be missing $50 with the enterprise-class drive.
=PmonNom
- you would be missing $50 with the enterprise-class drive.
- acescence0
the difference in an enterprise class drive isn't in the reliability, they'll both fail at about the same rate. an enterprise class drive remaps and marks bad sectors differently than a desktop class, with the focus being on speed since your data is redundant (RAID). enterprise class drives are NOT recommended outside of a RAID setup.
- xcreonx0
Ahhh interesting. I misunderstood the classification. I was told they were built to slightly higher specs which made them more reliable.
Thanks everyone, I will go with the standard desktop drives.
- jpea0
I'd think the more drive redundancy, the better. Google took that strategy by using a crap ton of cheap white-box servers in a cluster instead of high reliability enterprise class servers. Cheap to swap out if something fails. I'd rather put my money on multiple copies of data rather than counting on one drive to be reliable.
- xcreonx0
I absolutely agree and as I said above I have a backup system with Time Machine that runs every 30 minutes so I am more than covered.
I'll be getting the standard Hitachi Deskstar 1tb drives for sure.
Thanks again