[mythtv-users] Recent Drive Purchase from Newegg -- (10x WD2002FAEX-0)

[jedi]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:15:18PM -0500, Tristan Gross wrote:
> On 05/26/2011 11:22 AM, jedi wrote:
> > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:04:00AM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Ben Kamen"<bkamen at benjammin.net>
> >>> I thought I would share with the group since we talk about such large
> >>> arrays all the time.
> >>>
> >>> For a colleague of mine, I am setting up a RAID for them using the WDC
> >>> WD2002FAEX-0 drive.
> >>>
> >>> We bought 10 of them from Newegg. They came in a white foam carrier
> >>> half wrapped in bubble and then placed in a box with a little
> >>> additional paper wadding **UPSIDE DOWN**.
> >>>
> >>> Not exactly what I would call stellar packing.
> >>>
> >>> 2 of 10 drives DOA.
> >>> * 1 spins up -- but never reports to the system.
> >>> * 1 spins up but smart reported 1140 reallocated sectors during raid
> >>> build -- and was failed out.
> >     I recently got a batch of Seagate drives from Amazon and was pleased
> > by the packaging. I didn't have any DOA drives and I have not seen any
> > trouble with them yet. Haven't had them for very long yet though.
> >
> > [deletia]
> >
> >     My thusfar trouble free WD Green drive was a retail drive I picked up
> > at the local Best Buy.
> >
> I've had a 2TB WD green drive in a Myth-box / home-brew NAS now for a 
> year (Power_On_Hours = 9456).  Another 1TB before then has also 
> performed without problem for roughly double that time (21128).  Both 
> disks are from Newegg, were packaged fine, and  have worked flawlessly.  
> The first was purchased Oct-2008 & the second in May-2010.  It's 
> unfortunate that you've had trouble but personally I have not had 
> problems with Newegg with disks or other hardware.  Out of curiosity how 
> was the condition of the main box they were shipped in?  As a side note 

   I don't recall the main box looking damaged. Although I do vaguely recall
not being terribly impressed with how the individual drives were packaged.

   Amazon seems to be an improvement. Each drive in a multi-drive order is
packed in it's own box with plastic standoffs (or whatever you call those
things). If there were a problem, I would already have a suitable box on
hand for a single drive RMA.

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