On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Andrew McGlashan <[email protected]> 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.
According to the product pages for WD Black or Blue drives, they are suitable for RAID 0/1 on consumer desktop only. WD recommends their Enterprise line of drives (e.g. RE4) for servers running RAID. Look at their site for more information. When you reach the page for a drive, click on the lower banner "More Features". Only then do you see about RAID suitability and TLER issues with the particular drive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ca+akb6hjov8wkakdwvrgntl_4k7_mdbzcnak18s6bfpubgk...@mail.gmail.com
