[decooney]

Hey Brent,
Maybe you can do some background on the product-supplier and failure rates of the 15k drives you are using before ruling them out by speed in general. We run 10+ Terabyte sized databases in my line of systems work, approching 50TB over the next few years, all on 15K mirrored drives with low failure rates. They do fail but no more than 10k, and we did find a much higher failure rate on lower grade (cheaper) Tier2 disk subystems vs. Tier1 grade stuff. Good Luck on it, and thanks again for all of the hard work you guys all put into the ClubCobra site. DC