Why buy an enterprise drive?

by Bryan on June 14, 2011 in Uncategorized

Many IT professionals debate whether or not buying an enterprise hard drive for twice the price of a desktop hard drive is worth it. What do you get for your money? Intel wrote a white paper on this topic a while back that shows in detail what you get, answering questions and killing rumors that have floated around online forums for years.

With an enterprise drive you get a drive tuned for:

24/7 use
Higher reliability and MTBF
Increased data integrity
Higher throughput (if you’re buying a drive with a faster spindle speed)
Ability to tolerate higher temperatures and vibration found in RAID setups

All the technical details of how that’s accomplished are in the paper.

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

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