>I just took a look at customer feedback on this > drive here. 36% rate with >one star, which I would > consider alarming. Take a look here, ordered from >lowest rating to highest rating. Note the recency of the comments and the >descriptions:
Every people vote in different way for the same things. A lot of 1 star are about DOA. Maybe Neweggs have a bad batch (happens sometimes) The Bad news propagate much faster that the good ones. A angry user is more probable to post a bad review that a happy user. 120 review are a tiny sample to make a decision. look in the other way 50% is 4-5 stars, 1/2 is very happy. I've said that every brand have problem at moment. At 1.5TB there's few choice. For me the RMA service have a important role, because I expect to use it. I don't expect to see the five HDDs running flawless for 3 years. Samsung have no direct RMA service in my country, so the tournaround is a shoot in the dark, few weeks, maybe a month. Pick a rock solid product is more a matter of luck. I've a 13GB Deskstar DTLA, runnings strong after nealy 11 years or so ! maybe it's the last ones alive. Reading all over internet it should be dead 12 years ago. If the failure rate was 36% Seagate was toast. The Barracuda LP ca n't be the right driver for everyone, but if you look at 1.5TB cheap consumer driver, that run cool&quiet it deserve strong cosideration. It's better on the paper that the WD green, (stardard sector, no start/stop cycle after 8 sec of inactivity), Hitachi have no 1.5TB at the moment. samsung have a new recent model, the 7200.11 is a old product on 4 platters. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
