[Tfug] Western Digital "red" drives?

[Timothy D. Lenz]

The rewrite factor is what scares me away from ssd's, that and price. 
They have had many reports about new memory tech that doesn't have that 
problem. One of them was even claimed to be as fast as static ram and 
have a life span they could not really determine because it showed so 
little wear/decay. So they put it as something like 1000 years. But then 
all these techs vanish. It seems a bit like with electric cars years ago 
and high mileage devices. Too much money is oil, so they dont make it to 
market. Spinning disks of rust for storage should have gone away decades 
ago.

On 3/31/2013 9:16 PM, Kramer Lee wrote:
> I used t think Seagate was a better drive vs WD, and I think I
> remember they had a 5 year limited warranty, versus the WD 3 year.  I
> have some old WD and Seagate boxes, and the old Seagates say 5 year
> warranty and the WD boxes said 3 years.  I bought a seagate laptop
> drive last year, and after putting it in I see it has a 1 on the top,
> meaning a 1 year warranty.  Well that is a backup drive only now.
> Then I see WD has reduced theirs to a 2 year warranty.  So now if I
> get another drive is it a WD black, which has a 5 year warranty.
>
> It might be that hard drive manufacturers are feeling decrease in
> their business with tablets using memory/solid state drives, so they
> are going through a rethinking stage.  "Spinning hard drive?  Thing of
> the past."  But then it doesn't sound like they have the solid state
> drives reliable for many many rewrites yet, so they (at least the last
> time I searched on this subject) are not that reliable either.   Maybe
> if the spinning drives get good cooling and a nice low vibration
> environment, that would help.
>
> On 2/24/13, Zack Williams <zdwzdw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Timothy D. Lenz <tlenz at vorgon.com> wrote:
>>>   They have a "Red" class that starts at 1Tb. These they rate for server
>>> and
>>> raid use. But a bit of googling says they had some problems with the 1T
>>> red
>>> drives. Anyone know if this is still true or hear anything one way or the
>>> other about the red line of sata drives?
>>
>> I have few 2TB Red and 1TB RE4 drives.  No problems with either.
>> That said, all of them are less than 6 months old.
>>
>> Seagate had a bad run there in the Barracuda ES.2 days - nearly every
>> 500GB ES.2 I've used has been warranty replaced.  The newer
>> Constellation drives have been flawless.
>>
>> - Zack
>>
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