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Is there a difference between desktop harddrives and enterprise level harddrives?

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gotsmack

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I leave my computer on 3-4 days straight downloading. I am currently using 2 raptors.

If I were to look for a new hard drive should I buy the Enterprise level drives which have 2X the MTBF and are advertised for 24/7 environments? or would a desktop drive be ok?

I think I read somewhere a while back that desktop drives are only supposed to be run for 8 hours straight or else the life of the drive is reduced.

Are Enterprise drives a different with higher quality parts or are they just tested longer at the factory and maybe different firmware?

Thanks.
 
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"MTBF" means almost nothing in the real world.




But, for a little extra $$, enterprise drives get you a little longer warranty
 
i have a western digital RE2 500GB drive in my system which is a enterprise model, it performs just as well as my 500GB AAKS i have also plus it has a 5 year warranty with it
 
I would make my pick based on Price and Warranty .. If you get a longer warranty
and the cost is not much more than the other drive, then you get that. Or just buy
the one that fits your budget and make sure you make an occasional image of your
system.
 
May not be a separate production line, but in order to maintain quality control by lot or batch, it could be run as a separate batch on a given line. The main difference is usually in QC lot testing.
 
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