Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Andrew McGlashan
<andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Lisi wrote:
>>
>> Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard
>> Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges?
>>
>> And would you recommend it? I don't want to cause myself complications
>> with another dud drive. :-(
>
> Of all the options from WD, I would definitely go with the Black ones --
> they have longer warranty and are a much "safer" bet. But as with all HDDs,
> they will fail one day .... you are much more likely to get longer service
> from a WD BLACK though.
>
> Here's a fair summary page:
>
> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/desktop/
>
> NB: The warranty is longer for a good reason and you're likely to have
> larger cache on the drive as well.
According to the product pages for WD Black or Blue drives, they are
suitable for RAID 0/1
on consumer desktop only. WD recommends their Enterprise line of
drives (e.g. RE4)
for servers running RAID. Look at their site for more information.
When you reach
the page for a drive, click on the lower banner "More Features".
Only then do you see
about RAID suitability and TLER issues with the particular drive.
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