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MRFS

Storage Expert

August 18, 2009 4:22:20 PM

WD recommends their "RAID Edition" ("RE") HDDs
for all RAID arrays: cf. "Time Limited Error Recovery":

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/productcatalog.asp?langu...


And, you'll get much better performance from RAID arrays
assembled with HDDs that use PMR (perpendicular magnetic
recording) and 32MB cache.


MRFS