Although, the WDC TLER is a good feature I am concerned how WDC drive are having Firmware issues on their higher capacity drives. Yes It seems WDC is having the same issue that Seagate had (Has), just Seagate had the balls to tell the media about it.
If you are looking for 1TB drive take a look at the 1st or 2nd generation of the Samsung Spinpoint drives. I have only have had a hand full of the drives come in for recovery and they were relatively easy to repair, not like the Seagate or WDC drives. Just my 2 copper of info, Tim Lider Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com mailto:timli...@adv-data.com -----Original Message----- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Fisk Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:46 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] [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.
