WD has the best warranty service by far. Hitachi makes the most RAID-friendly drives, and their economical to boot. Therefore, almost all of my drives are either WD or HGST (and they'll soon be one house pending regulatory hurdles).
I wouldn't buy refurb drives for data I cared about or didn't have stored redundantly and/or backed up. They've undergone at least 2 more rounds of shipping, which I personally believe is the underlying cause of a good chunk of drive failures. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DSinc Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Thinkpad W520 Gary, Understand that money is tight; for all of us. $170 for 750GB is a buy for me. Considering that my 'surveillance' class 500GB drives now price a $235. I still shudder about the $400-$800 I paid in the past for 80-160GB drives. Fine. Stupid me! But all of my current drives are many years past their warranty and still opnorml! Duncan On 02/23/2012 16:20, Gary Udstrand wrote: > The WD looks nice, I see NewEgg has the 750G refurb for $99. Nice price > but I am not sure what to expect with a refurb. The new one is $169.99 so > I suspect a lot of people might think twice about a refurb hard drive.... > > -- > Gary > http://www.twigsandtracks.com > Twigs snap and tracks fade, a photograph reacquaints Twigs and Tracks > Blog: Painted > Falls<http://blog.twigsandtracks.com/2011/06/25/painted-falls/?utm_sou > rce=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=painted-falls> > > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Anthony Q. Martin<[email protected]>wrote: > >> I just don't believe one can make solid statements (and be credible) >> about the reliability of hard drives...but for me the WD is a good >> choice. You need a black, IMO, for video work. >> >> >> >> >> On 2/22/2012 11:40 AM, Gary Udstrand wrote: >> >>> Finally took the plunge and ordered a new laptop. For the primary >>> drive I opted for the SSD drive and am planning on adding additional >>> storage to the other bay. I like the capacity of the 1TB WD and >>> Samsung drives but a second look at their performance has me looking >>> at other drives. >>> >>> In the 750G range there appears to be two 7200RPM options, the Seagate >>> Momentus and the Western Digital. I would like the drive to be fast >>> (doing video, audio and digital photo work) but it needs to be reliable >>> too. One of these rise above the other? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> -- >>> Gary >>> http://www.twigsandtracks.com >>> Twigs snap and tracks fade, a photograph reacquaints Twigs and >>> Tracks Blog: Painted >>> Falls<http://blog.**twigsandtracks.com/2011/06/25/** >>> painted-falls/?utm_source=rss&**utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=** >>> painted-falls<http://blog.twigsandtracks.com/2011/06/25/painted-fall >>> s/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=painted-falls> >>>
