Is there an advantage to the 64MB cache drives other than read/write speed? These drives will be used but seldom, and when they are it will be for a continuous data write of about 5 GB, and continuous data reads of about 1.5 GB. In other words, pretty much streaming contiguous data both writing and reading. With that in mind, would the 8-second head park default be a problem worth fixing?

And somewhere I have gotten it in mind that the 64MB cache drives are primarily set up for RAID operation, and not suitable for non-RAID applications because the error correcting routine on the RAID systems is not as robust, but is biased towards swapping out questionable drives even though the errors detected are correctable. Or am I misunderstanding this entirely?

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