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On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 10:05 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> The drive I have is likely |
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> done on the drive itself, device managed, which is good for me. |
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Really the ideal situation are the Host Aware drives. I have no idea |
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what percentage of the markets they make. They fall back to being |
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device managed if the host doesn't do anything to manage them. |
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Your drive is device managed. See the link I posted earlier to the mfr info. |
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> I've been noticing that too. Only bad thing is, I can't always tell |
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> what is in the enclosure. Sometimes the info is given but sometimes |
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> not. I've also seen a few people complain that what they got was not |
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> the model of drive they thought. |
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Yeah, there are no guarantees as to what you'll get if you go the |
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shucking route. If you absolutely need a certain amount of cache or a |
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red firmware then you're just going to have to pay double to get that |
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guarantee. |
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For my application I'd definitely prefer the red firmware, but it |
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isn't really the end of the world if the drive takes a few seconds to |
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timeout on that one failure every 5 years. I'm not going to pay |
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double just to guarantee a particular model. If it were $20 more that |
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would be another matter, but we're talking $180 vs $350 here. |
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The other gotcha is that if you want to do a warranty replacement at |
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some point you're going to have to put it back in the enclosure to do |
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so. That means hanging onto enclosures, and is of course a bit of a |
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pain besides. Again, with a 50% reduction in cost you'd need to have |
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a lot of drive failures to be worth worrying about, especially since I |
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believe drive warranties are getting shorter anyway. |
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If you're in a typical enterprise situation then you're going to want |
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to just buy the bare drives with the standard warranty/etc. If you |
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buy in bulk chances are you're getting a discount anyway (and then |
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maybe you can get them in caddies or whatever). The Best Buy deals |
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are sporadic anyway and limited in quantity - you could never run a |
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data center that way. That's why they're priced the way they are... |
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Rich |
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