[Tfug] Western Digital "red" drives?

[Kramer Lee]

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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