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Western Digital (WD) RED NAS hard drives a Ploy?
It looks like Western Digital( WD) is now selling specialized hard drive for RAID/NAS systems. I thought the entire idea behind a RAID system is that you are using inexpensive disk as in non-speci...
I think the modern definition is independent (changed by the RAID advisory board).
Caustic wrote: Don't forget that RAID is often said to stand for ... Independant Drives.
When RAID was first developed, the alternative was SLED ("Single Large Expensive Drive"). Large wasn't just capacity, it was physical size. For instance, look at this 1987 ad: http://hpmuseum.net/upload_htmlFile/Pri ... act-40.jpg Those 500 MB drives cost $17,600 each (in mid-80's dollars). And one of the selling points is how small they are!
By contrast, RAID let you aggregate the much smaller and less expensive 5.25" disk drives (still pretty new at the time).
The world is much different now!
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