[Bioclusters] 400 Gb drives?

[elijah wright]

> Has anyone had positive or negative experiences with using 400 Gb SATA 
> drives in RAID arrays? Some vendors are telling me that they are fine, 
> and some other vendors say that they are still too new and very 
> failure-prone.

the one 400GB drive that floated through my lab a couple weeks ago 
(someone shipped a bunch of data to us on it) ran HOT.  as in 
burn-your-fingers-instantly hot.

hitachi branded, maybe?

elijah