Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

On 9/26/2011 6:53 AM, 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. :-(

/knocks on wood

I've had a Blue series WD5000AAKS-00V1A0 single platter drive in 
production in my SOHO MX mail server for almost 16,000 hours now, 1.8 
years.  This is a 500GB 3.5" SATA2 drive, 7.2k, 16MB cache.  I'm pleased 
with it so far.  Primary workload is low rate random IO--Postfix queue 
file and Dovecot mbox.  250GB of it is not even partitioned yet.  In a 
nutshell, light duty use.  Relevant S.M.A.R.T. data:

Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0
Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0
Seek_Error_Rate         0
Power_On_Hours		15639
Power_Cycle_Count       50
Temperature_Celsius     26
Reallocated_Event_Count 0
Offline_Uncorrectable   0
UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0
Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0

--
Stan