I have two 1TB spinpoints and no issues so far. They universally test out to be the quietest, fastest, and almost as low powerdraw as the 5400rpm WD. One less platter than the competition is a huge advantage.
The majority of the negative reviews on newegg stem from the partition/disk utility bundled with the sammy and it apparently is antiquated and messes up the drive. My response is "huh? people still use disk utilities?" > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 07:53:32 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [H] 1 TB drives? > > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Need to know now? Get instant answers with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_messenger_072008
