[Slackbuilds-users] lists.slackbuilds.org hardware problem

[Miguel De Anda]

aha! no wonder my computer am broke all the time. i bought a handful of
these for my workstation and another machine acting as a nfs server used
strictly for backup -- backups went to a software raid 5 on green drives.

-m


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:48 PM, B Watson <yalhcru at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6/21/13, W. D. Milner <slackware at caisteal.net> wrote:
> > The solution is to use appropriate drives for the purpose. There are
> > reasons some drives are specified for RAID/enterprise use. Yes they cost
> > more, but they are also far more reliable and longer lasting than
> > desktop drives used in the same environment.
>
> From reading the linked articles, it looks like these "desktop" drives
> are useless even for casual desktop use (they still die young, and they
> cause GUIs to freeze up while waiting for the heads to unpark).
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