advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Andrew McGlashan
<andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Lisi wrote:
>>
>> Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard
>> Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges?
>>
>> And would you recommend it? *I don't want to cause myself complications
>> with another dud drive. :-(
>
> Of all the options from WD, I would definitely go with the Black ones --
> they have longer warranty and are a much "safer" bet. *But as with all HDDs,
> they will fail one day .... you are much more likely to get longer service
> from a WD BLACK though.
>
> Here's a fair summary page:
>
> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/desktop/
>
> NB: The warranty is longer for a good reason and you're likely to have
> larger cache on the drive as well.
According to the product pages for WD Black or Blue drives, they are
suitable for RAID 0/1
on consumer desktop only. WD recommends their Enterprise line of
drives (e.g. RE4)
for servers running RAID. Look at their site for more information.
When you reach
the page for a drive, click on the lower banner "More Features".
Only then do you see
about RAID suitability and TLER issues with the particular drive.
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09-26-2011, 04:24 PM
Lisi
advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive
On Monday 26 September 2011 16:48:56 Camaleón wrote:
> As you did not provide any item from we can choose to, I can tell you
> what fetaures I look for when buying these cases:
Thanks Camaleón,
I didn't have a clue where to start! Hence no info. In the past I have just
bought a case, and it has just worked - but it seemed worth asking the
question "does it matter", and you have given me just the sort of answer that
is useful!
Lisi
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09-26-2011, 04:28 PM
Lisi
advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive
On Monday 26 September 2011 17:12:42 francis picabia wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Andrew McGlashan
>
> <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Lisi wrote:
> >> Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal
> >> Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges?
> >>
> >> And would you recommend it? *I don't want to cause myself complications
> >> with another dud drive. :-(
> >
> > Of all the options from WD, I would definitely go with the Black ones --
> > they have longer warranty and are a much "safer" bet. *But as with all
> > HDDs, they will fail one day .... you are much more likely to get longer
> > service from a WD BLACK though.
> >
> > Here's a fair summary page:
> >
> > http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/desktop/
> >
> > NB: The warranty is longer for a good reason and you're likely to have
> > larger cache on the drive as well.
>
> According to the product pages for WD Black or Blue drives, they are
> suitable for RAID 0/1
> on consumer desktop only. WD recommends their Enterprise line of
> drives (e.g. RE4)
> for servers running RAID. Look at their site for more information.
> When you reach
> the page for a drive, click on the lower banner "More Features".
> Only then do you see
> about RAID suitability and TLER issues with the particular drive.
Thanks, Francis - but David had understood what I meant and answered exactly
the question that I was asking, so his reply was, from my point of view,
perfect. I accept that to give the perfect answer he had probably had to use
divination, but he had done so to great effect.
Lisi
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09-26-2011, 08:42 PM
Stan Hoeppner
advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive
On 9/26/2011 6:53 AM, Lisi wrote:
Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard
Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges?
And would you recommend it? I don't want to cause myself complications with
another dud drive. :-(
/knocks on wood
I've had a Blue series WD5000AAKS-00V1A0 single platter drive in
production in my SOHO MX mail server for almost 16,000 hours now, 1.8
years. This is a 500GB 3.5" SATA2 drive, 7.2k, 16MB cache. I'm pleased
with it so far. Primary workload is low rate random IO--Postfix queue
file and Dovecot mbox. 250GB of it is not even partitioned yet. In a
nutshell, light duty use. Relevant S.M.A.R.T. data:
advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive
On Monday 26 September 2011 06:32:24 am Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Lisi wrote:
> > Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal
> > Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the Blue ranges?
> >
> > And would you recommend it? I don't want to cause myself complications
> > with another dud drive. :-(
>
> Of all the options from WD, I would definitely go with the Black ones --
> they have longer warranty and are a much "safer" bet. But as with all
> HDDs, they will fail one day .... you are much more likely to get longer
> service from a WD BLACK though.
>
> Here's a fair summary page:
>
> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/desktop/
>
> NB: The warranty is longer for a good reason and you're likely to have
> larger cache on the drive as well.
+1,
all drives fail, having a longer warranty period usually means a better quality
drive, but in real life, it just means that the vendor provides new drives for a
while longer, if needed.
I go by warranty period and try to Divine, somehow, the vendors service record.
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09-27-2011, 02:11 PM
Go Linux
advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive
--- On Mon, 9/26/11, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> wrote:
> From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>
> Subject: Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Monday, September 26, 2011, 6:22 PM
>
>
> On Monday 26 September 2011 06:32:24 am Andrew McGlashan
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Lisi wrote:
> > > Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1
> TB 7200 RPM Internal
> > > Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the
> Blue ranges?
> > >
> > > And would you recommend it?* I don't want to
> cause myself complications
> > > with another dud drive. :-(
> >
> > Of all the options from WD, I would definitely go with
> the Black ones --
> > they have longer warranty and are a much "safer"
> bet.* But as with all
> > HDDs, they will fail one day .... you are much more
> likely to get longer
> > service from a WD BLACK though.
> >
> > Here's a fair summary page:
> >
> > http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/desktop/
> >
> > NB: The warranty is longer for a good reason and
> you're likely to have
> > larger cache on the drive as well.
>
>
> +1,
> all drives fail, having a longer warranty period usually
> means a better quality
> drive, but in real life, it just means that the vendor
> provides new drives for a
> while longer, if needed.
>
> I go by warranty period and try to Divine, somehow, the
> vendors service record.
>
>
I have 5 Caviar black drives though not the one mentioned here. One of them failed earlier this year. One partition wouldn't mount due to some some bad blocks according to fsck. Fortunately it wasn't a critical one. It cost me $5 to send off to WD (after carefully wiping the drive) and I had a replacement within a few days.
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09-27-2011, 05:50 PM
Lisi
advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive
On Tuesday 27 September 2011 15:11:39 Go Linux wrote:
> --- On Mon, 9/26/11, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> wrote:
> > From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>
> > Subject: Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB
> > 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Date: Monday, September 26, 2011, 6:22 PM
> >
> >
> > On Monday 26 September 2011 06:32:24 am Andrew McGlashan
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Lisi wrote:
> > > > Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1
> >
> > TB 7200 RPM Internal
> >
> > > > Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the
> >
> > Blue ranges?
> >
> > > > And would you recommend it?* I don't want to
> >
> > cause myself complications
> >
> > > > with another dud drive. :-(
> > >
> > > Of all the options from WD, I would definitely go with
> >
> > the Black ones --
> >
> > > they have longer warranty and are a much "safer"
> >
> > bet.* But as with all
> >
> > > HDDs, they will fail one day .... you are much more
> >
> > likely to get longer
> >
> > > service from a WD BLACK though.
> > >
> > > Here's a fair summary page:
> > >
> > > http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/desktop/
> > >
> > > NB: The warranty is longer for a good reason and
> >
> > you're likely to have
> >
> > > larger cache on the drive as well.
> >
> > +1,
> > all drives fail, having a longer warranty period usually
> > means a better quality
> > drive, but in real life, it just means that the vendor
> > provides new drives for a
> > while longer, if needed.
> >
> > I go by warranty period and try to Divine, somehow, the
> > vendors service record.
>
> I have 5 Caviar black drives though not the one mentioned here. One of them
> failed earlier this year. One partition wouldn't mount due to some some bad
> blocks according to fsck. Fortunately it wasn't a critical one. It cost me
> $5 to send off to WD (after carefully wiping the drive) and I had a
> replacement within a few days.
Thak you. That is very helpful.
Lisi
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09-27-2011, 07:22 PM
Steven Rosenberg
advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Go Linux <golinux@yahoo.com> wrote:
--- On Mon, 9/26/11, Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> wrote:
> From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>
> Subject: Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Monday, September 26, 2011, 6:22 PM
>
>
> On Monday 26 September 2011 06:32:24 am Andrew McGlashan
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Lisi wrote:
> > > Is the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1
> TB 7200 RPM Internal
> > > Hard Disk Drive worth the extra money over the
> Blue ranges?
> > >
> > > And would you recommend it?* I don't want to
> cause myself complications
> > > with another dud drive. :-(
> >
> > Of all the options from WD, I would definitely go with
> the Black ones --
> > they have longer warranty and are a much "safer"
> bet.* But as with all
> > HDDs, they will fail one day .... you are much more
> > NB: The warranty is longer for a good reason and
> you're likely to have
> > larger cache on the drive as well.
>
>
> +1,
> all drives fail, having a longer warranty period usually
> means a better quality
> drive, but in real life, it just means that the vendor
> provides new drives for a
> while longer, if needed.
>
> I go by warranty period and try to Divine, somehow, the
> vendors service record.
>
>
I have 5 Caviar black drives though not the one mentioned here. One of them failed earlier this year. One partition wouldn't mount due to some some bad blocks according to fsck. Fortunately it wasn't a critical one. *It cost me $5 to send off to WD (after carefully wiping the drive) and I had a replacement within a few days.
I had a WD Blue laptop drive that was running fine but was too small. I replaced with a larger WD Caviar Black. The drive failed within a week. I RMA'd it to WD, got a new drive in another week, and it's been smooth sailing since then -- no problems with the 320 GB WD Caviar Black.
Like everybody who's used a lot of computers, I've had some drives go bad, others seemingly last forever. There's no substitute for good, frequent and multiple backups.
09-27-2011, 07:40 PM
Lisi
advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive
On Tuesday 27 September 2011 20:22:25 Steven Rosenberg wrote:
> There's no substitute for good, frequent and
> multiple backups.
I doubt that you would find anyone here who would disagree with you! But
failure is a nuisance even when it is not a disaster. It is worth something
to me to lessen the chance of failure, and I have had experience myself of
how good the WD guarantees are. But price is sometimes fixed at the point
that marketing think the market will bear or even like, so is not a reliable
guide to whether you get more bang for your buck.
Thank you very much for your input.
Lisi
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