I'm looking for a replacement HD 3.5 inch SATA III for my desktop Linux Mint system and would appreciate some guidance from persons that deal with HD hardware.
mid-Feb 2015 bought a pair of (what Memory Express sold as "enterprise drives" one is failing in 2 large partitions and I'm using e2fsck to keep it alive, so need to replace *SOON*. My plan is to clone and replace. Just limiting myself to WD 2-3 Tb SATA III drives from this page: https://www.memoryexpress.com/Category/HardDrives select WD SATA III and 3.5 inch I get 8 drives from $80 "blue" to $165 "black" of course MemEx doesn't show the same specs which prevents easy "apples to apples" comparisons. Reliability is more important than speed. Don't really want a noisy desktop either. I want a minimum 2TB drive. right now I'm leaning to Black with 5yr warranty and 300,000 load/unload or Red intended for NAS with 3 yr warranty and 600,000 load/unload thoughts or alternatives? should I just jump to a 4Tb drive? Thanks, Chris _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
