Western Digital 500GB SATA drive 16MB Cache $170 or 0.34¢ per GB

[jmunjr]

Originally posted by: sniggle
How could a drive possibly last about 137 years at 100% duty cycle without failing? I don't understand how they come up with these MTBF figures...

Maybe you should take a stats class before commenting on something about which you have no clue.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Shaorinor
Never had a WD drive fail. I've had a Seagate fail, though. Go figure =P.

I've seen ALL BRANDS FAIL in my previous life as a computer tech.

Personally my most recent drive failure (first in ages) was a Seagate 200GB.

Originally posted by: jnmunsey

Originally posted by: sniggle
How could a drive possibly last about 137 years at 100% duty cycle without failing? I don't understand how they come up with these MTBF figures...

Maybe you should take a stats class before commenting on something about which you have no clue.

Dude just stated that he doesn't understand. You want to rub it in or something?

Originally posted by: Googer

With 1.2 million hours MTBF, 100% duty cycle, 5-year warranty

Seagate does not rate their 7200.9 or 7200.10 drives for 100% duity cycle. They are some thing like 30-40%-ish.

WD doesn't rate their "normal" drives with 100% duty cycle either AFAIK. These are the special "RE" drives. Seagate makes a competitor, the "ES" drive.

 

[Mr Bob]

"Are you a Western Digital salesman?"
- Nope.

"Very illogical, isn't it? LOL"
- Very. There are going to be tons of people who have failed hard drives, and fewer who have two failed, and fewer who have 3 failed, etc.. If you had 10 fail in a row, that doesn't mean WD sucks. It means you are unlucky, and that YOU suck

 

[vadp]

I've never said WD sucks.
I'm saying 2 WD hard drives have failed on me.
Therefore I'm not gonna buy their drives the next time around.
Why are you having a problem with that???

 

[gclg2000]

Sweet, another hijacked argument thread. You guys are all ______'s.

 

[step-dawg]

Do these drives get hot? And are they noisy?

 

[vadp]

A comparison test:

http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200607/500_1.html

 

[step-dawg]

Originally posted by: vadp
A comparison test:

http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200607/500_1.html

Thanks. That was a great site. very informative. I may have to jump on this now.

 

[RealRaver]

Would it be wiser to wait till after T-giving for a possible better deal, whatcha think?

I'm building a PC but do need to large SATA drives...
buywaitbuywaitbuywait???

 

[randomlinh]

man... so much storage... so much potential for massive data loss.. heh. I'm going to have to start buying these in pairs

 

[intogamer]

I never had A HDD fail on me. I've had about 5 broken HDDs because I dropped them or it was on my end

 

[Mr Bob]

"Why are you having a problem with that???"
- Because that implies that the company/drives are bad. Maybe you don't understand how that implies it, but other uses who read it, think that is what it means.

 

[PhoenixOrion]

In for one.

 

[snooby]

FYI, you may want to disable TLER if you are not using RAID. See http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=27&threadid=1953197.

 

[telco]

In for 2 (raid), something about 1T of storage