On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 13:18:32 -0700 Tom <[email protected]> dijo:
>I wish other companies would publish yearly hardware failure rates like >this one: >https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-benchmark-stats-2016/ I've been there before, but I find their web page impossible to figure out. >> I have had a lot of Seagates die, but every few WD drives, and never >> had one just up and quit, the WD's always gave me some sort of warning prior >> to taking a dive, the Seagates were bad about just failing. I can echo your sentiments about Seagates failing - I've had the same experience. However, I recently heard or read (can't remember where) that Seagates lately have become much better and are now worthy of consideration. Even if true, their previous performance has lost me as a customer. We customers tend to have long memories. >> The idea of purchasing a external drive case and buiding your own >> drive is a good idea. That is the best bit of advice I have seen in this thread. In fact, that is exactly what I now plan to do. >> > For instance, the WD Black and Datacenter drives appear to >> > have 5 year warranties, as does the Seagate BarraCuda Pro. >> > galen I know that the 8TB WD in my Synology has a five year warranty, but I'll be damned if I can remember which color it is or which model number. I just spent the last half hour looking everywhere for the purchase details, but all I can determine is that it was not from Amazon, and the date must have been early July 2016, because that's when I signed up for the Synology forums, and I bought the drive and the Synology at the same time. I also remember them both arriving in the mail. For drives inside my computer I can get the drive information with Palimpsest (now Gnome-drive-something), or gparted, but those two do not see the NAS and I have no idea how to poke at it to get the drive model number. I'd like to get another of the same model because the Synology is a two-bay NAS and some day I might want to use it there. In the meantime I'll get a USB enclosure for it. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
