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On 05/09/2012 07:47 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> As long as you don't use them in any kind of RAID setup you they should |
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> be fine. |
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> The biggest difference between them and 'enterprise' class drives is the |
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> enterprise class drives are designed for multi-drive RAID setups... you |
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> don't want drives to spin down independently when working in a RAID |
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> setup... |
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AFAIK, the only technical difference between a consumer drive and an |
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enterprise one is that the enterprise one doesn't tell lies. Or at |
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least, it isn't supposed to. |
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Consumer drives will acknowledge writes before they have hit the |
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platter, even if the cache is disabled on the drive (and some consumer |
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drives do not even allow the cache to be disabled). |
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The only scenario this seriously guards against is unexpected power |
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loss, where the drive has told the OS that the data has been written to |
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disk, but it is somewhere in-between (e.g., on cache, but not on the |
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platter) and then the power is disconnected from the unit (specifically, |
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the drive itself). Even an unexpected reboot from the computer won't |
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affect this, unless the computer removes power to the device during |
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early boot (and on x86 systems, that is a virtual impossibility). |
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--- Mike |
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-- |
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A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic |
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than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense. |
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--- Carveth Read, “Logic” |
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