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

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--- On Mon, 9/26/11, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> wrote:

> From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>
> Subject: Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Monday, September 26, 2011, 6:22 PM
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 

I have 5 Caviar black drives though not the one mentioned here. One of them failed earlier this year. One partition wouldn't mount due to some some bad blocks according to fsck. Fortunately it wasn't a critical one.  It cost me $5 to send off to WD (after carefully wiping the drive) and I had a replacement within a few days.