Hey all,
I'm looking to replace some 1TB HDDs in a s/w RAID-10 array with some
2TB models. The existing drives have been running flawlessly for a few
years, so they are due to get swapped out anyways. I did have one disk
fail a year or so ago so it was swapped out, and I bought a cold spare
at t
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:17:11AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Of course, when I bought the drives warranties were 3 or 5 years, not
> the '1 or 2' years they are now. So I'm looking for the "best value"
> 2TB drives available today -- lowest price for highest quality + good
> warranty. It looks
Drives categorized for server use will typically have 3-5 year
warranties. The 1-2 year warranties are for desktop drives. Server
drives also cost more for little or no actual benefit other than the
warranty.
Because disks are consumables these days. Treat them like the tires of
your car: somethin
Dan Ritter suggested:
> Seagate and WD both have drives rated for NAS duty at slight ($10-20)
> premiums over the They get a better warranty, as well.
>
> for instance,
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148902
> is $130 rather than $110, for which you get a three year
> wa
Rich Pieri writes:
> Drives categorized for server use will typically have 3-5 year
> warranties. The 1-2 year warranties are for desktop drives. Server
> drives also cost more for little or no actual benefit other than the
> warranty.
>
> Because disks are consumables these days. Treat them like
On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 11:19 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> That is kind of the point, but I'm trying to find ones that *will* last
> 3-4 years but wont break the bank today.
>
> I don't mind buying new drives periodically. But I'm trying to figure
> out which ones to buy now. Kinda hard to buy a b
On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Dan Ritter wrote:
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:17:11AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
Of course, when I bought the drives warranties were 3 or 5 years, not
the '1 or 2' years they are now. So I'm looking for the "best value"
2TB drives available today -- lowest price for highes
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:20:40PM -0500, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:17:11AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >>Of course, when I bought the drives warranties were 3 or 5 years, not
> >>the '1 or 2' years they are now. So I'm l
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:32:35 -0500
Dan Ritter wrote:
> I have an inordinately high failure rate with WD Green in the 1 and 2
> TB sizes. About 70% were replaced in their first year, about 50% have
> been replaced a second time. All were in Linux boxes.
My bet is that you have a "noisy" chassis.
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 03:43:07PM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:32:35 -0500
> Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> > I have an inordinately high failure rate with WD Green in the 1 and 2
> > TB sizes. About 70% were replaced in their first year, about 50% have
> > been replaced a second tim
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:53:45 -0500
Dan Ritter wrote:
> Possibly, but other disks have worked well and lasted to more
> expected lifetimes, including Samsung, Seagate and WD Black.
WD Greens don't suffer 70% failure rates after 1 year of service. That
your handful did suggests that you have a sys
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 04:17:33PM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:53:45 -0500
> Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> > Possibly, but other disks have worked well and lasted to more
> > expected lifetimes, including Samsung, Seagate and WD Black.
>
> WD Greens don't suffer 70% failure rates a
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:28:17 -0500
Dan Ritter wrote:
> I do not recommend the purchase of WD Greens based on experience
> with 10>n>20 disks that had a 70% early mortality in my servers
> that was not evinced from other brands or makes of spinning
> disks.
I think you mean 10n>20" means you had
Regarding my warranty-period encounter with a Seagate drive purchased this
week from TigerDirect, I had remarkable exchange with customer service:
From: ri...@pioneer.ci.net
> Your website page for this product (Seagate 3TB drive) makes
> a false claim. Please revise the manufacturer's warranty s
Rich Braun wrote:
>> Service & Support Details: Limited warranty - 2 years
>
> Well, that leaves me far more confused than before. Couldn't they have pulled
> a carton of drives from inventory and /look/ at the the box label that I
> reported?
>
> What would you do?
I don't remember if Seagate
On 01/11/2013 12:06 AM, Rich Braun wrote:
Well, that leaves me far more confused than before. Couldn't they have pulled
a carton of drives from inventory and /look/ at the the box label that I
reported? I don't even quite know how to respond to this, other than to
forward it to the Attorney Gen
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