On Monday 26 September 2011 06:32:24 am Andrew McGlashan 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.
+1, all drives fail, having a longer warranty period usually means a better quality drive, but in real life, it just means that the vendor provides new drives for a while longer, if needed. I go by warranty period and try to Divine, somehow, the vendors service record. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109261522.17258.gomadtr...@gci.net