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western digital
enterprise re4 wd2003fyys $262 on amazon or $260 on newegg
desktop wd2001fass $170 on amazon
desktop wd2002faex $170 on newegg

hitachi
enterprise a7k2000 $240 on amazon and newegg
desktop 7k2000 $111 on amazon or $120 on newegg

seagate
enterprise constellation es $244 on amazon or $250 on newegg
desktop barracuda xt $170 on amazon and newegg

i need four of these things.

are enterprise disks worth the extra money?

hrmm they can be... i don't know specifically what the optimizations are.

One your error rate is considerably lower. I recently was called in on a server failure and found two drives were reported failed(4 disk raid 5). On reboot the second failed drive still had errors but the failure cleared. I replaced drive 4 it was able to rebuild and then I was able to replace drive 3 and the rebuild was successful. I'm surprised it was even successful on enterprise drives.

Second better faster interfaces. Now I bet there is a good chance you are not creating enough w/r to switch to sas but another option maybe nl-sas. Spindle count is still king

Cost probably not worth the switch

What is the planned data use? Raid config?

torrenting. raid 10 or raid 6.

Depeding on the amount of torrents and the popularity, you might indeed create enough read/write operations to make use of SAS, like ozntz said ... but the cost of such an endeavor would probably not be worth it.

You can find fairly inexpensive multiple-bay enclosures that would work well for your situation, I would imagine.

This one:
http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Technology-Drive-Ex … amp;sr=8-1

D:

Carpetsmoker... car... or 2TB SSD.... tough call man.

i hate this review of the hitachi 7k3000. see my reply! :]