At 04:35 PM 03/07/2012, James Maki wrote:
I have been out of the hard drive market since the flooding created insane
prices last year. It seems we are down to basically 2 choices, Seagate and
WD. For mass storage, I had been going with the Samsung 2TB "EcoGreen"
model, with great success. They have now been purchased by Seagate and have
only a 1 year warranty, a bit of a disappointment. I also have a number of 1
TB WD Black Caviar units that have given great service. The 2TB model is
almost 2x the price of the Samsung/Seagate and WD Green models. Lastly, I
have several Hitachi 1TB 7200 RPM units that have not given me any issues.
I'd definitely go with WD Blacks if you want reliability and the best
warranty (5 years) in the business. I also find that RMAing a WD
drive is always the easiest and you get back the fewest DOAs. Moving
down to a Blue will mean more failures, but they aren't terrible. I
haven't used Greens.
I've had no problem with Blacks on RAID.
T
