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Recommendations for enterprise class hard drives

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I'm about to rebuild my machine with Windows 10, and will use SSD drives for my main OS/Programs drives (with a software RAID 1 setup). My current setup is a 500 GB RAID 1 with SATA drives, and I'm at approximately 400 GB on that setup - and about 25 - 30 GB of that is stuff that won't be going back on the new build.

So I figure I'll need ~400GB drives, and would like to go with Enterprise class drives if I can afford them. I've found these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167227

They have enough space, and are listed as Enterprise, but I'm not a hardware guy and wanted some input on those (and any other recommendations in the same basic size/price range).
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I ended up buying two of these, and will use them next week when rebuilding my machine. Thanks very much for the information - I'm very new to SSDs, and also to the concept of "enterprise" drives!

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