[committee] 6 hour warning: This Week's Committee Meeting Agenda

[James Andrewartha]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Daniel J. Axtens wrote:

> > matt : buy a brand new 1TB WD green drive off MSH for $50 coke credit
> ISTR reading that green drives were pretty terrible?

They are, but the intended use is as a disk backup (perhaps using 
rdiff-backup) that's accessed once a day. Since it's either in use lots 
during the backup or not at all at other times, the suckage is limited.

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