I'm puzzled by the root notion that users should be using enterprise drives, when the Ensembles come equipped with desktop drives. Mine had 1TB Hitachi Deskstars that I could have picked up for ~$100 at the time. Yeah, you can argue that enterprise drives are more reliable, etc., etc., but when an OEM doesn't equip with that class, then how important can it be? And "standard" storage is so cheap anyway, why pay more for the reliabilty that enterprise drives purportedly offer? You ought to be backing up anyway, so while the reliability argument has some rational basis, enterprise drives do fail. But non-enterprise drives don't fail so often as to (in my opinion) warrant spending more to get the enterprise drives.


Control:10 (died) | Ensemble #1 (died) | Ensemble #2 (zones: 4 analog, 1 digital) | Intel NUC running ROCK | DSP3100 | F80 | migrating to Roon with multiple 218 Zone Controllers