Don't buy Reds unless you are running a raid array. Blue should be good enough as long as they are 7200 RPM and not 5400 RPM. I have seen some 5400 RPM drives lately than they are alright for secondary storage but in your case you want at least 7200 RPM. On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 7:09 PM caziz <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
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