I wanted a good warranty for the drives in my RAID setup, so I have a pair of WD Black 1Tb drives in one NAS and a pair of Seagate 1 Tb drives in the other. Both are 5 yr warranty drives...
The WD's are only 104 bucks right now at NewEgg. The Netgear came with one Seagate, so I bought the matching drive for it, otherwise it would have 2 of the WD Blacks in it as well. :) -- JRS [email protected] Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. ________________________________ From: Christopher Fisk <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:46:00 AM Subject: [H] Which 1TB(ish) drive to use in RAID-1 setup? I'm looking for something relatively inexpensive, quiet and cool to put into my system to take over for a 250GB and 350GB drive I have that aren't in raid. I'm thinking 2x 1TB drives and setting them up as RAID-1. It's going into my system which has 4 drives relatively close together. The WD Caviar I was looking at for $104 at newegg has some feature called deep recovery cycle which causes it to drop out of raid. http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1397&p_created=1131638613 I'd prefer to pay as close to $200 as possible for the 2 drives, but if I can't get anything that low or any quality for that low of a price, I'm willing to go higher. What do you guys recommend now for drives? I've got a pair of seagate 7200.11 750GB drives in this computer, I suppose I could go with another pair of those, I've been happy with them but they aren't super fast or quiet. Christopher Fisk -- BOFH Excuse #205: Quantum dynamics are affecting the transistors -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
