Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive
On Tuesday 27 September 2011 15:11:39 Go Linux wrote:
> --- 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.
Thak you. That is very helpful.
Lisi
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