11-06-2010, 05:01 PM
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Which hard drives should we get ?
Hello
I would like to know the best SATA II drives out there right now as we were having alot of suddenly dead drives lately.
Should we get
WD5000AAKS
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WD5001AALS
OR ... ?
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11-06-2010, 05:19 PM
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If you are looking for high reliability in servers, neither. WD make good disks but stick to enterprise-class drives if you want maximum stability.
I would highly reccomend WD RE's.
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11-06-2010, 05:40 PM
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We also mainly use the WD Raid Edtion disks, we haven't had many fallouts so far!
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11-06-2010, 05:40 PM
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if they are to be used in hardware array, then choose wisely with 500-Gig RE3 (WD5002ABYS; 16M buffer) or RE4 (WD5003ABYX; 64M buffer) RAID edition drives.
if standalone or non-RAID situation, WD5001AALS black is indeed more reliable and performs better than WD5000AAKS blue.
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11-06-2010, 05:49 PM
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We run RE4's ... I wouldn't want to run a consumer grade drive in a server.
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