>There was a thread about the MTBF of various types of drives, linking >to articles about the experiences of Google.com, here in this mailing >list, probably 1 or 2 years ago. As I recall, they found the MTBF >between different types of drives to be about the same? That's exactly what I was referencing when I said the MTBF was probably BS. Its been my experience as well, I have super cheap SATA drives running in a very busy iSCSI array storing DVR data that's being written to at a fairly high rate consistently and the thing just wont quit... jlc