7 Sep
2012
7 Sep
'12
10:04 a.m.
On Sep 7, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 7 Sep 2012 at 11:18, John Foust wrote:
I suppose it depends. I have yet to find a recent-vintage hard
drive that I'll put my trust in, because they've all started
failing with little to no notice. I used to rely almost
exclusively on Seagate drives, especially back when WD was
churning out piles of crap in the late '90s and early '00s,
but Seagate's reliability seems to have dropped in the toilet
in recent years. Unsurprisingly, it seems to have coincided
with their acquisition of Maxtor.
I've been happy-ish with recent-make WD "green" drives; they're
quiet and don't heat up as much, both of which give me a level
of confidence that they're not incurring lots of mechanical or
thermal stress (that may be all in my head). They occasionally
seem to have serious issues (data corruption type) with some
USB<->SATA bridges, but that seems to correlate some with 4k
sectors as well. I haven't had one fail yet except under those
circumstances, but I'm sure there's a time for everything.
- Dave
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?