[mythtv-users] How is this pricing possible?

[Michael Costa]

I had bought 2 2TB Western Digital Green Drives WD20EADS and both have
failed in less than a year.  I still have my 500gb drives from 3-4 years ago
running fine.  I would not recommend the cheap ones.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136344


On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:58 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I just bought 6 2tb seagate 5900 spin drives for my NAS.  One was doa
> > and now another one less than a month later has mounting smart errors
> > and says I should soon replace.  That's a 33 percent failure rate.  I
> > have 4 750 gb seagate drives that have been running in my other NAS that
> > have been running without problems for a year and a half.  I'm thinking
> > the larger drives are problematic.
> >
>
> For me most of the early failures were with either 500GB or 750GB
> drives. Although the dozens of 250GB WDC SATA1 drives we purchased in
> 2005/2006 have had high failure rate in the last 2 years but those are
> 5+ years old so that is expected.
>
> --
> John M. Drescher
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