On Monday 26 September 2011 17:12:42 francis picabia wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Andrew McGlashan > > <andrew.mcglas...@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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109261728.23074.lisi.re...@gmail.com
