$70 price drop. Newegg has the Western Digital VelociRaptor WD6000HLHX 600GB 10K Drive for $100 with free shipping. Features 32MB cache, SATA 6.0Gb/s interface, 10,000 RPM, and 1.4 million hours MTBF. Normally goes for around $150.
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These types of drives are pretty obsolete. Too small for major storage and not fast enough to beat out SSDs.
I agree. IN a desktop an SSD for OS & App drive. Green drive for data storage.
With a mean time between failure (MTBF) of 1.4 million hours, they must have started testing this model prior to the year 1854. Since this is an average time, they would have had to have some test units in operation even longer than 159 years to get that average. Makes me wonder why they only offer a 5 year warranty if it should last an average of 159 years, must not believe in their product. Could it be that they are pulling that MTBF figure out of their a$$? My last Seagate drive had a real time before failure of 164 hours, which is way closer to the true MTBF than the 300,000 it was rated. My point is what a load these figures are. Does anyone believe that a mechanical hard drive could last even one tenth of this rating?
As somebody once said: "there are lies, damned lies, and statistics."
#3... only logical explanation is time travel
^ Well there we have it, I never thought of that. It must be Seagate's time machine has a defuct though, set it for 300,000 hours and it only traveled 1 week into the future.
That's not how they calculate MTBF. Suppose that they make 500,000 of these, and every one is tested for an hour at the factory. If ONE failed in that hour, you have a 500KH MTBF. If they tested for 3 hours with 1 fail then you have 1.5MH MTBF.
Deceptive, yes, but lots of products are rated like this.