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

[Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>]

On Monday 26 September 2011 06:32:24 am Andrew McGlashan 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.


+1, 
all drives fail, having a longer warranty period usually means a better quality 
drive, but in real life, it just means that the vendor provides new drives for a 
while longer, if needed.

I go by warranty period and try to Divine, somehow, the vendors service record.

-- 
Peace,

Greg