Seagate vs. Western Digital

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: ColKurtz

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
They both have 5 year warranties, but WD does advance RMAs and Seagate doesn't. Based on that alone, I would go WD.

Again, ONLY if you are using the drive in a RAID array. Do not use WD RE drives in a non-RAID environment

According to the Tech Report, TLER can be disabled by the end user.

Western Digital's 500GB Caviar SE16 and RE2 hard drives - Desktop or enterprise?

 

[ColKurtz]

I was just going by WD's statement that "TLER-capable hard drives should not be used in a non-RAID environments." Does disabling TLER re-enable standard error handling on the drive itself? Hard to tell. WD's advance RMAs and the 5 year warranty on REs are certainly attractive, but if it were me I would go with a non-RE drive just to have one less thing to worry about. Or else get a RAID card and grab a few 🙂

TLER information sheet (PDF link)

 

[piasabird]

The Terabyte drives are coming with gigantically large memory cache on the drive. Imagine trying to format that bloated piece of hardware.