You probably wanted to say "you can't beat MY pair of WD Greens running at 5400"
It is pretty wild to make general reliability statements with sample size 2 and without model, and batch number. I had 2 out of 8 WD greens failing years ago with total data loss about a month in their life times. WD replaced them without extra hassle, and none of them failed until retired years later. Still a fail is a fail .... I would not say bad or great based on sample size 8 without model and batch .... Backblaze stats are good source for hdd reliability, if you can get their model numbers in retail. Just my 2c, -T On Tue, Dec 9, 2025, 02:29 Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> wrote: > Only if it's a single drive. > > I don't build SOHO servers anymore with single drives. Nowadays I use 2 > drives and Ubuntu Server than during the setup configure BIOS to set the > disks as just a bunch of dumb drives, and then during OS installation turn > on drive mirroring. > > Pricing on used WD Golds is such that that's where you want to be at. Used > Golds are usually datacenter pulls. > > Now for ultra reliability you can't beat a pair of WD Greens running at > 5400 > rpm. I have a pair that the mirror has gone through 3 PCs now. The drives > have outlasted motherboards and power supplies. > > Ted > > -----Original Message----- > From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rich Shepard > Sent: Monday, December 8, 2025 9:52 AM > To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Hardware advice: replacement internal desktop drive > > On Mon, 8 Dec 2025, Michael Ewan wrote: > > > Western Digital Blue or Red (depending on use case) are generally a good > choice. > > Michael, > > So a WD Blue hdd would be a good choice for an SOHO server/workstation. > > Thanks, > > Rich > >
