On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:33 AM, Eliezer Croitoru eliezer@ngtech.co.il wrote:
Hey Richard,
Just keep in mind that depends on your usage the disk might get bad sectors. As much as many including me would like to not have them happen they do happen for any HDD vendor! Some things that affect DISK lifespan:
- enterprise\server level usage on a desktop disk
- high times of over heating(can be a result of the above)
- very high number of random direct read+write operations exhausting the
mechanical parts of the disk.
- electricity stability issues which can cause magnetic interference in
disk operations.
- many others.
In this case it is up 24/7 but it will be used as a DVR drive so I/O wise it's not very demanding.
And I must admit that I do not want to stain Seagate name and I must add
that couple years ago when 250GB was lots of space I bought a WD 250GB HDD that faulted after only about 24 hours of operation. What would you do after such a thing??
I would prefer it fail in 24 hours rather than a couple of months :) At least then you know you have a bad drive quickly before you start trusting it or get too far away from your backup that you were supposed to do.
Thanks, Richard