7 Sep
2012
7 Sep
'12
9:50 a.m.
On 7 Sep 2012 at 11:18, John Foust wrote:
I've been seeing some horrible failure rates on
that first gen of 1 TB
(consumer) drives, now that it's about two years out. I had some fail
almost right away, and I RMA'd them, and those failed, too.
This brings up a question that I have regarding high-capacity drives.
On my day-to-day use systems, I stick with lower-capacity drives
(160, 320 or 500 GB) because I have a mistrust in the larger 1TB, 2TB
and 3TB hard drives being offered at what, to my mind, are fire-sale
prices. I do use a couple of 2TB drives for backup, but they're
probably run less than once per week for whatever time it takes to
back things up.
Is my mistrust merely paranoia or am I being prudent?
--Chuck