[swinster]

Again, after reading a few other people comments, some said that the WD desktop drives don't like being in part of an Array, whilst the same Samsung ones don't mind, yet others have said the the Samsung drive (especially the 1.5TB models) firmware can't deal with being in an array.

With regard to RAID options on these types of drive, I have just been browsing the WD site and came across this:

What is the difference between Desktop edition and RAID (Enterprise) edition hard drives?

However, the Samsung site appears to be absolutely no info with regard to RAID, for ANY drive! I'm guessing that this is something that they don't support in the majority of their drives but doesn't necessarily meant hat it won't work. Not sure if the error thing mentioned in the WD article above works in a similar way on these drives or not. Interestingly, they do/did manufacturer a specific RAID model - the SpinPoint F1R - so at a guess I would say that the other models are similar to the WD normal drives.


To me this might not be hugely distracting as no Critical data will actually we stored in this array - it will just be media and a file store. Yet, I'm still not sure. Buying speciifc RAID drives for home use will significantly bump up cost and drive down storage capacity.

Do others actually run Desktop drives as part of an array? If so, what drives and controllers?

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I know quite a few people who do, most report no issues. But more than a few of us have had serious issues, some of them uncorrectable, so as usual, YMMV.

I personally only run desktop drives in 2-disk RAID0 or RAID1's for non-mission critical applications. That's just me, though.