OT: HD's for filePro WAS: drill down

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:02:06PM -0500, Walter Vaughan wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >Seagate's Cheetah-164 is about $800 right now.  That is, actually, $.50
> >a gig.
> >
> As much as I like SCSI, I think I'm gonna build me a box next week with
> 4 - 160Gig SATA Barracuda drives and an Intel SATA RAID Card that can be
> configured as RAID for about $780 total including the drives.
> 
> http://www.intel.com/design/servers/buildingblocks/srcs14l/
> 
> Might be a tad slower, but hey it's a real RAID vs a bare drive.

What are the rated MTBF and Warranty length on the SATA drives?

I'll stick with the Cheetah, myself.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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