Thane,
Thank you. OK, I will now tarnish my Seagate rec. even though I do not
have user
experience to match your share. I may look at the WD Black series.
Duncan
On 02/23/2012 15:36, Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 02:02 PM 23/02/2012, DSinc wrote:
Anthony,
I could not agree more on HD reliability.....but I will champion
Seagate as a good choice.
Yes, Seagate has dorked with their warranty values, but overall, I
have rcvd 12-15 years of
24/7 use from the Seagate HDs I have owned.
True, I may not thrash my drives with huge reads and writes; but I do
defrag mine monthly!
Just the fact that Seagate won't release their actual SMART
information so it's all guess work is enough to make me avoid the
line. Add to that what appears to be sudden fall offs of drives (they
will go from just slight error rates to complete failure in days or
weeks) is also a bad sign that I don't see in WD.
T
