That's totally understandable. Honestly, we haven't seen any appreciable difference in performance or failure rates between "enterprise" class drives and "consu

That's totally understandable. Honestly, we haven't seen any appreciable difference in performance or failure rates between "enterprise" class drives and "consumer" drives (usually WD). Matching RPMs and cache sizes, there's just no way to justify the extra cost for them. The one area we didn't penny-pinch on was the tape backup. Glacially slow compared to HDDs, obviously, but absolutely necessary.