2 TB Seagate Drive ??

[Jim]

On 02/04/2014 02:20 PM, Dan Thurman wrote:
> On 02/04/2014 01:45 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Jim <binarynut at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Fedora 18.
>>>
>>> Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch 
>>> Internal Bare
>>> Drive ST2000DM001
>>>
>>> Has anyone had any experiernce with this hard drive on Linux.
>> YMMV of course, but I've had to replace 2 1TB Seagate Barracudas (I
>> know, not the unit you're asking about) on my NAS (Iomega ix2). One
>> failed after a couple of months, the other about two years later.
>> Luckily the disks were mirrored so I didn't lose anything. I replaced
>> them with WD drives.
>>
>> Also, you might want to look at
>> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/putting-hard-drive-reliability-to-the-test-shows-not-all-disks-are-equal/ 
>>
>>
>> poc
> Yup!  I was going to say that I had bad experiences
> with Seagate drives and replacements costs money
> so I dropped Seagate went with Hitachi some years
> ago! poc has provided the link!
>
> The warranty for Hitachi drives are 3 years
> and gone are drives with 5-year warranties?
>
> YMMV and I am (still) running 6x2TB 24/7 without a glitch!
>
You guys have convince me , I ordered a Hitachi 2tb yesterday.