On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Go Linux <goli...@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- On Mon, 9/26/11, Greg Madden <gomadtr...@gci.net> wrote: > > > From: Greg Madden <gomadtr...@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. > > 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.
