On Mar 25, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Andrew Dunn wrote:

Recently Dell is selling their WD20EARS (2TB) for 90$

This being one of the best PPG (Price Per Gigabyte) snatches I have
seen, I was considering buying 8 of them for an mdadm array.

Has anyone had experience with these drives?

Note, they have 4K sectors.

Thank you for your kind responses.
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This is a low-cost consumer disk that is rated for a whole 2400 hours
use in a year.  You get what you pay for.