Re: OT - hoping for some pointers ....

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2014-12-26 at 20:39 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On 26/12/14 07:27 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> > I have been looking for 2TB 2.5", 7200RPM drive to no avail.
> > There are 5400 rpm drives - but I found them considerably
> > slower than 7200 RPM drives.
> >
> > If anyone has the "inside scoop" on this, would sure appreciate
> > the info.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > JD
>
> http://www.seagate.com/ca/en/products/enterprise-servers-storage/nearline-st...

I've had some bad experiences with Seagate (had to replace both 1TB
drives in an Iomega NAS; luckily they were RAID1 and failed at different
times). The following is often cited, though it's a year old and may not
reflect current products:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/putting-hard-drive-rel...

poc