2TB Drives - Sorry reviews left & right

[Voo]

If you are using a raid 1, 5, 6 and etc, you can still access data if a drive fails. I'm mostly on Raid 6 + hot spare arrays now so in theory it rebuilds using the drive just sitting there... It does cost more, but losing multiple TB's of data is crazy. I agree with the backup comment. Backups are always good, but I'm lazy and only schedule daily backups of all of my boxes :-/

Sure you can still access the data if one of your drives fails, so that can be a really good argument for RAID.
But you still have to backup your data anyhow and if one of your drive fails you better replace it, so the time consumed is the same.

 

[ViviTheMage]

I've got about 20 RE4 2TB WD drives running production, so far ZERO failures.

I haven't touched the consumer grade 2TB ones yet...I am still waiting for a SANE price on 2TB 7200RPM drives.