[Pc_Support] 320GB WD3200JD SATA drive for $107 shipped ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

ozz at ozz.is-a-geek.net wrote:
> And yet I have NEVER had a Maxtor fail on me.  Maxtor are
> the only brand that have never failed me yet.

Remember when I had two (2) 40GB hard drives fail on my home
server?  Both were 40GB Maxtor drives -- single 40GB platter,
low-profile (0.75") -- from retail boxes from Best Buy just
over 1 year old.  And these were 5400rpm drives too.

> The 120Gb WD was running only a few degrees above ambient.

Since most case ambients are easily approach 40C in many
cases, I hope there was cool air being blown on them.

How was it being cooled? 

> I would certainly buy Seagate again.

I don't think anyone has much issue with Seagate's newer
drives which have returned to 5 year warranties.

> #:-(

Now you know why I liberally use 3Ware for PATA.

On my new MicroATX/SATA setup, I'm using two (2) WD3200JD
drives for a reason.  Not direct RAID-1, but I'm rsync'ing
changes every few days.  I'm waiting for a new, affordable
PCIe RAID card.

Unfortunately, 3Ware hasn't introduced any.  In fact, they
just introduced the PowerPC-based, PCI-X Escalade 9550.  That
tells me their initial Escalade 9500S design, adding DRAM to
the existing ASIC+SRAM approach, was a bad move.

> I'll have to check into them some more.
> Thanks for the info.

The WD3200SD (Caviar RE) isn't too much more than the JD
(Caviar SE), and worth it for servers/24x7 desktops.


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