I have two (2) WD Caviar Black 1 terabyte drives in one NAS and two
(2) Seagate 1 terabyte drives in the other NAS right now..
All 4 have been flawless so far, and all 4 have 5 yr warranties, so I
am not too worried. :)
All 4 are running in RAID 1 mode. For the price, it's not too bad to
give up a 90 dollar drive for the redundancy of RAID 1. :)
Cheers..
On Jan 30, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Bino Gopal wrote:
What are your guy's thoughts on buying HDs nowadays? You can get
1TB SATA
HDs for <$100 (sometimes even $80 on good sales) so the price/
storage ratio
is so-sweet it's almost a no-brainer to buy like 5-10 and go into
some crazy
RAID setup!
But I keep seeing reviews on Newegg and other sites about these things
FAILING all the time (across all manufacturers), and that makes me
worried.
I'd rather spend more and get something good that will definitely
last and
be reliable.so if I buy SAS drives, will they definitely fit that
bill?
Problem is they seem too expensive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150014%2010
35917796&name=Serial%20Attached%20SCSI%20%28SAS%29>
&N=2010150014%201035917796&name=Serial%20Attached%20SCSI%20%28SAS%29
(A guy at work was going to give me the adapter to use these btw,
since they
don't seem to sell them as much. :P)
Or do you have to hunt and find the enterprise class SATA drives
that are
better quality than the general consumer ones, like this one?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136313 (WD
RE3)
I've been looking at storagereview, but they don't seem to break
down the
more reliable class as a whole vs the cheaper stuff.thoughts?
BINO
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