Bad news; I ran the Data Lifeguard Diagnostic utility from WD. Halfway I stopped the check because I had to finish off some work; I can't work while it's running and I thought this is going to take a hell lot of time. Even though the scanning wasn't complete it spotted a bad sector. I was going to repair it but I was like, "fuck this I'm not ready to get my data at risk of loss. Mirror on the 1st queue".
So I did not mend the bad sector but if I tried to next time and if it gets more critical and unrepairable; keep in mind I still have store warrenty on this drive [b]AND[/b] this is the 2nd Caviar Black I had after the 1st one crashed, what other drives do you guys reckon that I should go for?
seagate barracudas seem to be the shit with being cheap, Sata III and single platter, haven't heard anything bad myself, I think the terabyte ones have two 500GB platters
I always get Caviar Blacks just because they perform well. You could always check out the Western Digital RE4's or Velociraptors for more speed, but a Seagate barracuda would probably be a pretty safe bet to get something similar to the Caviar Black.
WD-CB are the best high-capacity enthusiast HDDs. Sure, Samsung and Seagate are good too, but WD stands untouchable in the high-performance and eco-friendly market. Ofc, like any other top-quality brand, you gotta pay for it.
Yeah that's important to other "new" members too. We discussed about their drives in the past I believe (around 3 years back?) and there were high reports of drive failure. I have no idea about Seagate's drives; although there was one member (our good ol Prawn, remember him all of our old members? :D) ranting about these drives failing on him numerous times for each one another. Got any more suggestions about Seagate?
I actually have a Seagate Barracuda AND a caviar black, and I get better performance from the caviar black, I've had a couple of caviar blues but they tend to die on me....I guess you have just had some really bad luck with your Caviar blacks cuz I think mine is the best drive I've ever owned and I hear only good things about them
I actually have a Seagate Barracuda AND a caviar black, and I get better performance from the caviar black, I've had a couple of caviar blues but they tend to die on me....I guess you have just had some really bad luck with your Caviar blacks cuz I think mine is the best drive I've ever owned and I hear only good things about them
is it a newer one, becuase they just started putting them on the Sata III interface recently although its not going to saturate that but I imagine it would still pretty fast in Sata II mode, not knocking the WD caviar blacks though, the comparable seagate drives are cheaper, at least on newegg, I found a 32MB 6Gb/s terabyte seagate drive $10-20 cheaper than a 32MB multiplatter 500GB 3GB/s caviar black
Yeah that's important to other "new" members too. We discussed about their drives in the past I believe (around 3 years back?) and there were high reports of drive failure. I have no idea about Seagate's drives; although there was one member (our good ol Prawn, remember him all of our old members? :D) ranting about these drives failing on him numerous times for each one another. Got any more suggestions about Seagate?
Seagates are good reliable drives, I had one for about 10 years I think, it never broke.
is it a newer one, becuase they just started putting them on the Sata III interface recently although its not going to saturate that but I imagine it would still pretty fast in Sata II mode, not knocking the WD caviar blacks though, the comparable seagate drives are cheaper, at least on newegg, I found a 32MB 6Gb/s terabyte seagate drive $10-20 cheaper than a 32MB multiplatter 500GB 3GB/s caviar black
Older seagate Barracuda, newer Caviar Black, in the baracudas defense its using a shitty marvell Sata controller