On Feb 4, 2012, at 1:39 AM, Tom Metro wrote: > > Interesting. Steve Gibson, author of SpinRite, likewise swears by > Hitachi drives. And I too wondered how that squares with the mediocre to > bad reviews they seem to get on NewEgg. Enterprise vs. consumer drives?
Hm. Nope. I double-checked the Backblaze blog article: http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/ They're definitely using the Deskstar 5K3000 disks rather than the enterprise-class Ultrastar disks. These are the 3TB version of the Deskstar 5K3000 2TB that are derided on NewEgg. I suspect that rather than an abnormally high failure rate, NewEgg is seeing an abnormally high complaint posting rate. After all, who rants when disks don't fail? --Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
