For desktop/home use... I find it better to purchase drives with 5 year warranties than ones with 1-3 year warranties. I have had multiple Western Digital "desktop" drives with 3 year warranties fail over the years sometimes, sometimes right after the warranty ended, and sometimes early in their life. Western Digital has/had a warranty warranty replacement where they just send you another drive and a label to send the old one back, though they do ask for a credit card in case you don't send the failed drive back.
In the server world, when they go in hardware RAID arrays, I've seen everyone's drives fail. That's why you use hot spares and have a service contract. On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Brian Toscano <brian.tosc...@gmail.com>wrote: > I think they all make fine drives, but I have only purchased hard drives > in retail packages so I know they were shipped properly. Sometimes those > NewEgg drives that come from OEM boxes of 20 are thrown in a box with a > single sheet of bubble wrap and handed over to UPS to throw around some > more before they arrive at your doorstep. > > > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> wrote: > >> I have been experiencing periodic delays in disk access on our computer >> and have been looking at getting a replacement disk to forestall any >> difficulties and also to upgrade from CentOS 5.8 to CentOS 6.2 without >> taking our computer down for a protracted period of time. >> >> In looking at disk reviews on Newegg, however, I see a lot of brands of >> disks (WD, Seagate, Hitachi) with one-egg reviews and the title DOA. >> >> Is there anyone who makes a decent disk these days? >> >> >> Craig >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
