From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:45:03 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <6DC61E4A6EC613C81AC1688E@[192.168.1.2]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS Topicbox-Message-UUID: 74150520-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Apparently, the distinction made between "consumer" and "enterprise" is > actually between technology classes, i.e. SCSI/Fibre Channel vs. SATA, > rather than between manufacturers' gradings, e.g. Seagate 7200 desktop > series vs. Western Digital RE3/RE4 enterprise drives. yes this is very misleading. the interface doesn't make a drive enterprise or consumer grade. it seems that the terminology was different then. - erik