Promise Pegasus drives

[Ron Amborn]

This is a good article as well.

https://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/enterprise_class_versus_desktop_class_hard_drives_.pdf

[Ron Amborn]

SEE BELOW THE DIRECT QUOTE FROM HGST ……

Hi Ron,

HGST doesn’t recommend using our “Deskstar” drives in applications that require multiple drives in a single chassis and raid environments.

“Deskstar” drives are designed for 8 hours per day x 5 days per week single drive enclosure applications.

“Enterprise Ultrastar” drives are designed for 24 hours per day x 7 days per week always spinning / reading / writing with multiple drives in the same chassis.

Cheers

Mark Stallion
Area Sales Manager
OEM, Western Region
HGST a Western Digital Company
3403 Yerba Buena Rd, San Jose, CA 95135
Mark.Stallion@hgst.com

Sincerely,
Ron Amborn President
Maxx Entertainment Digital
21562 Newland Street
Huntington Beach , Ca 92646
Direct 714-374-4944
Cell 714-713-4492 Fax 714-374-3404
ron@maxxdigital.com
http://www.maxxdigital.com

[Rainer Wirth]

Bobs comment is exactly what we have encountered over the years:
We have tried to work with Hitachi HDS drives in a raid. The drives worked fine, but we’ve had 4 disc failures in a 16 bay raid within two years. We’ve switched to Hitachi Ultrastars – one disc failure in 3 years but with 64 drives.
For us the only disc we put in a raid array are Ultrastars.
We have made good experiences with some seagate barracudas, built in three La Cie Desktop drives. So the big manufacturers build good storage, and for me I would always recommend enterprise storage in any raid array, because its simply better, more reliable in the end cheaper, because its lifespan is bigger than a desktop drive.

cheers

Rainer

factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Ron Amborn]

Well said. I could not agree more. But I guess some companies like to put Desk top in the storage platform to save money. NOT !!!!!

Sincerely,
Ron Amborn President
Maxx Entertainment Digital
21562 Newland Street
Huntington Beach , Ca 92646
Direct 714-374-4944
Cell 714-713-4492 Fax 714-374-3404
ron@maxxdigital.com
http://www.maxxdigital.com

[Rainer Wirth]

So back to Neil,

my recommondation for you is: Send back the OWC stuff, buy a raid enclosure which fits your needs and put some enterprise HDs in it.
Less hustle for years, less problems to think about.

cheers

Rainer

factstory
Rainer Wirth
phone_0049-177-2156086
Mac pro 8core
Adobe,FCP,Avid
several raid systems

[Bob Zelin]

Hi –
I do not have everyone information – but I have some information here –

AVID uses Seagate Constellation enterprise drives in their AVID ISIS 5000

Facilis uses Western Digital RE series Enterprise drives in their Terrablock product

Small Tree uses Hitachi Enterprise series drives in their Titanium series (and in everything else)

Maxx Digital uses Hitachi Enterprise series drives in their Final Share system

Tolis Group uses Seagate Constellation Enterprise series drives in
the Argest archive product.

I would love to hear from others what they find in fine manufacturers like GB Labs Space, Apace Systems, Isilon, EditShare, Studio Network Solutions, etc.

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
maxavid@cfl.rr.com

[Bob Zelin]

from the Studio Network Solutions website –

https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/evo/tech/

Available Drives

256GB, 512GB SSD
2TB, 3TB, and 4TB Enterprise-class RAID-edition 6Gbps SATA drives

ENTERPRISE ENTERPRISE ENTERPRISE ENTERPRISE

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
maxavid@cfl.rr.com

[Bob Zelin]

from the Sonnet Technology site –

https://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusiondrivemoduleplatinum.html

Key Features

500GB, 1TB, or 2TB capacity with 32MB cache Enterprise/RAID Edition hard drives(1)

3TB capacity with 64MB cache Enterprise/RAID Edition hard drive(1)

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
maxavid@cfl.rr.com

[Bob Zelin]

OTHER WORLD COMPUTING Jupiter series –

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ER0830008TE/

•8 ports, 6Gb/s SAS 2.1 compliant

Standard Mechanism

•8 x 1.0TB* HGST Ultrastar A7K2000**

*1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 5-10% less). The actual total capacity will depend on your own defined file settings/preferences.

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
maxavid@cfl.rr.com

[Tim Wilson]

JMR, Small Tree, Facilis, Western Digital, AVID, Maxx Digital, Tolis, Studio Network Solutions, Areca, CI Design and ATTO all call for Enterprise drives.

Does that mean that I have to use them? They’re pretty expensive, Bob.

(Just trying to save some time until somebody else posts this question for real.)