Re:Farming hard drives: 2 years and $1M later
by sliverstorm on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @04:03PM
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Interesting. I've never once found a standard drive model inside an external.
I mean, of course they are standard form factors, standard interfaces, etc- they are standard 3.5" hard drives- but they are always some odd model number I've never heard of with a 32kB cache, 1 month warranty, and 3600RPM. (slight exaggeration).
Re:Farming hard drives: 2 years and $1M later
by hrrsn on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @04:39AM
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In my experience, most of the 3.5" enclosure drives have been off the shelf. My last batch of HP ones were all WD Greens. I have seen a few WD 2.5" externals with proprietary connections :/
I mean, of course they are standard form factors, standard interfaces, etc- they are standard 3.5" hard drives- but they are always some odd model number I've never heard of with a 32kB cache, 1 month warranty, and 3600RPM. (slight exaggeration).