Re: "raid" versions of hard drives for software raid?

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Brendan Conoboy wrote:

> Dan Christensen wrote:
> > I'm looking at either the Western Digital 500G RE2 drives or the cheaper
> > 500G SE16 drives.  I have read that for use with a hardware raid card,
> > the RE2 drives are more appropriate, and I'm wondering if the same is
> > true for software raid.
>
> It's a mechanical property- vibration tolerance and whatnot.  No difference 
> between software and hardware raid in this sense.
>
> > I am planning to get two drives, and may use the entire drives as RAID1,
> > or I might partition the drives and use most of the partitions in a
> > RAID1 configuration, but leave a few of the partitions without RAID.
> >
> > Suggestions appreciated (even suggestions for another drive I should
> > consider).
> >
> > I do like the 5 year warranty on the RE2 drives and the increased MTBF,
> > as I do have a long history of drive failures...
>
> I have 5 400GB RE2 drives in a RAID5 array (software raid, naturally). That 5 
> year warranty has come in handy- only 1 of the original drives still remains. 
> 5 RMAs in under 3 years.  Maybe the 500GB is better.

That's a lot of RMA's, bad PSU or vibration issues, or a bad lot of 
drives?


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