Newegg has the Western Digital Caviar Black WD2002FAEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (Bare Drive) for $140 - $10 off with coupon code EMCKAHG22 [Exp 9/29] = $130 with free shipping. Covered by a 5-year warranty.
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2 TB drives with lesser warranties can be had for around $60 - does a 5 year warranty and SATA 6.0 justify a $70 price premium? Thinking I'd be better off buying 2 2TB drives for $120, and either RAID mirroring them or RSYNC'ing one to the other.
#1, the odds are good that the WD Black will still be working at the end of the 5 years. The cheaper ones, not so likely.
Black hard drives are for performance. The longevity is the same as their cheaper green and blue drives you moron. No difference unless you're talking an enterprise drive.
Yeah, I have a WD black drive....it is blazing fast!
Some of the features that set this drive apart from the other drives are:
Dual actuator technology - A head positioning system with two actuators that improves positional accuracy over the data track(s). The primary actuator provides coarse displacement using conventional electromagnetic actuator principles. The secondary actuator uses piezoelectric motion to fine tune the head positioning to a higher degree of accuracy. (1.5 TB and 2 TB only) StableTrac - The motor shaft is secured at both ends to reduce system-induced vibration and stabilize platters for accurate tracking, during read and write operations. (1.5 TB and 2 TB only.
Dual processor - Twice the processing power to maximize performance.
THanks everyone
#2, most drives last 5 years, even with a system on 24/7. Random defects can make any drive shorter lived but you cannot assume buying a particular model, even an enterprise drive, translates into any assurance of long life.
On the other hand, since drive failure rate starts to increase again (again meaning after the infant mortality period is over) after 2 to 3 years, if failure prevention is important you will swap out, replace the drive so the longer warranty didn't really matter.
With a WD black where you're paying a premium for the performance, another reason to replace in 3 years is there may be a faster model available.
This series used to be rock-solid, but Western Digital is in decline, particularly from a reliability standpoint.
Black,blue or green, why you guys need 2TB? I'm having a hard time to fill up 500GB internal and 500GB external. Still, I limited my drive to 750GB max, 1TB and up scared me.
#9 must be buying DVD's & Blu-Ray still.
#3, check the rating on your remark. It tells you how many agree with your "knowledge."
You might want to explain why WD offers a five year warranty on the Black and not on the others. You figure that they're confident that the higher price point will pay for the returns they'll get rather than that they have more confidence in this drive?
When MicroCenter had them on sale for $99.99, I bought two at Fry's with their price matching policy.
Read speed goes as high as 150MBps. Sustained read and write while doing other tasks is over 50MBps.
These drives are better than $60 drives. That's why those drives are $60 and these are $100 and up.
Or:
1. doesn't know what Usenet is
2. doesn't want a large audio and video collection
3. has a slow connection