[GRLUG] 2TB HDD

[scott.tanner at comcast.net]

I've have mixed-luck with just about every drive out there, and have concluded the warranty period is the best feature on most disks. 

We have 30+ Seagate 2TB Constellation ES drives in our servers, only had to return 2 in the past 2 years. We've also had 5 ( of 10) Seagate 1.5 TB disks arrive DOA! We seem to lose a Seagate 500GB SATA disk every month, though they're all over 3 years old. 

I've had good luck with the WD Caviar black 1TB disks (only replaced 1 of 12) in the past 2 or 3 years. Then there's the old Maxtor 250GB SATA drives - 40+ disks running for 6 years non-stop! 


The only linux-based issue I've experienced is with GRUB and GPT partitions schemes, which may be fixed in more recent OS versions. 


Regards, 
Scott 


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Pembrook" <david at pembrook.net> 
To: ajabma at chartermi.net, "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area." <grlug at grlug.org> 
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 4:10:39 PM 
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] 2TB HDD 

No issues here... Western Digital AV-GP WD20EVDS 2TB SATA 3.0Gb/s. 

The WD 2TB has been solid but was not cheep. I'm not doing SATA III 
though either. Could that be an issue for some people? I haven't heard 
much good about the "green" drives though. 

Get on newegg.com's mailing list and they are always having specials on 
them. For a popular drive your sure to get user reviews from Linux 
users too. 

Dave 

On 9/10/2011 12:15 PM, Alan J Abma wrote: 
> I'm looking to buy a 2TB SATA HDD. 
> I've read that some people have issues with these on Linux. 
> Does anyone have any experience with them? 
> What Brand/Model would you suggest? 
> Think cheep. 
> 
> Alan 
> 
> 
> 

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