SuperMicro H8SSL-i (ServerWorks HT1000) -- JMR SATAStor 6x2.5" in 1x5.25" array

John Haxby jch at scalix.com
Thu Dec 1 11:06:15 UTC 2005


Eugen Leitl wrote:

>That looks interesting. The airflow vents look too narrow, though, and
>there's no cooling redundancy. Are there any 24/7/365 specced
>2.5" SATA drives? I'm not aware of any. Laptop drives seem to frequently
>fail within a year in a server environment (I actually have a 60 GByte
>Samsung drive in a mini-ITX system, but it is not currently under load).
>  
>
It's not SATA, but there's a version of the 60GB, 7200rpm Hitachi 
TravelStar that is touted as enterprise-class.   I have one in my laptop 
:-)  For a while it was significantly more expensive than the 
non-Enterprise version but now it seems to be about the same price.

jch




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