[geeks] Enterprise SATA hard drive recommendations

Jonathan Katz jon at jonworld.com
Mon Dec 2 11:00:55 CST 2013


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Any recommended brands for SATA enterprise/datacentre disks? It is running
> a pair of Seagate ES series drives and they lasted a stunning 4 years.
>
>
I'm a big fan of anything SSD these days. Although SSDs can die, they have
no moving parts and are tons faster. If you don't have needs to store HUGE
amounts of data (requirements for 500GB or 1TB drives) cough up the cash
for 256G SSDs (usually around USD $200-$300 each)


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