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

[Tristan Gross]

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 did not modify them with hdparm or WD tools in any way.

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