Looking to replace the 250 GB drives in my RAID 5 HTPC array with 1 TB ones. The Seagates in there now have been champs and really hoping I can get the same performance out of the new drives. I was going to go with the WD GreenPower line as they seem to be out the longest and hopefully have had all the kinks worked out. But going through the reviews on Newegg, I saw the WD RE2 which is supposed to be an enterprise-class drive (and is $240 as opposed to $180) and also the WD Caviar Black which had twice the cache of the other 2 at 32MB for a price between them.
Seagate, HItachi, and Samung also now have 1 TB drives out with the Samsung Spinpoint supposedly being reviewed the best and the Hitachi being really new with not a lot of reports yet. Anyone on the list have thoughts/opinions/experiences? I know at this point it seems like the "quality" of a manufacturer can shift every few years and collectively from what I've read anecdotally there are higher than normal reports of DOAs and early deaths with all of these 1 TB drives than what we have seen in the past. ---- Brian
