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[Discuss] The perpetual question: current "best" HDD?



On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 03:43:07PM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:32:35 -0500
> Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:
> 
> > I have an inordinately high failure rate with WD Green in the 1 and 2
> > TB sizes. About 70% were replaced in their first year, about 50% have
> > been replaced a second time. All were in Linux boxes.
> 
> My bet is that you have a "noisy" chassis. Vibration from cooling fans
> and the like. Noise like that can significantly degrade disks' lives.

Possibly, but other disks have worked well and lasted to more
expected lifetimes, including Samsung, Seagate and WD Black.

-dsr-



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