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.<br><br><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136344">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136344</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:58 PM, John Drescher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> I just bought 6 2tb seagate 5900 spin drives for my NAS. One was doa<br>
> and now another one less than a month later has mounting smart errors<br>
> and says I should soon replace. That's a 33 percent failure rate. I<br>
> have 4 750 gb seagate drives that have been running in my other NAS that<br>
> have been running without problems for a year and a half. I'm thinking<br>
> the larger drives are problematic.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>For me most of the early failures were with either 500GB or 750GB<br>
drives. Although the dozens of 250GB WDC SATA1 drives we purchased in<br>
2005/2006 have had high failure rate in the last 2 years but those are<br>
5+ years old so that is expected.<br>
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