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> 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.
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>