>From Newegg if you buy in lots of 5 or more they will be shipped in the same foam cases used for 20 drives. These generally protect very well. Anything less than 5 and now guarantees (though I have had 3 come before in the nice foam bulk casing).<div>
<br></div><div>That said I have run most drives out there. The older WDEADS 2TB drives still allow you to fix the TLER (they call it), while their 4k sector WDEARS 2TB drives do not.</div><div><br></div><div>I had good luck with Samsung until I had 4 of 5 drives from the same manufacturing batch die within 12 hours of each other. That was bad. That aside, they otherwise perform well and work fine with RAID controllers.</div>
<div>Looking in the <a href="http://hardforum.com">hardforum.com</a> forums (from HardOCP.com) there is lots of great info from array builders. Generally very serious array builders. Mine is only 12TB right now. Still awaiting my SAS expander.</div>
<div><br></div><div>They appear to recommend the hitachi5k drives. I have 10 that I'm burning in right now. The first one's that i've purchased since the deathstar/deskstar incident. Since WD bought them I figured they must have something going for them. Oh, those drives also have a 5 year warranty.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any drive with a 5yr warranty is generally going to be more reliable because the manufacturer thinks that it will be more reliable.</div><div><br></div><div>And that model hitachi (2TB) cost the same as the samsung and wd 2TB, but is a little faster and has 2 more years of warranty support.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Good luck with your arrays.</div><div><br></div><div>James<br><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Daniel Kristjansson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielk@cuymedia.net">danielk@cuymedia.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 08:12 +0100, Alex Butcher wrote:<br>
> On Wed, 25 May 2011, Ben Kamen wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> I keep hearing reports of poor HDD packaging by Newegg; I'm amazed their<br>
> failure rates aren't totally killing their margins. If I lived in the US, I<br>
> wouldn't buy my HDDs from Newegg based on these repeated reports.<br>
<br>
</div>I've bought many drives from Newegg, and at least in recent memory<br>
they were all packed pretty well. Newegg is huge they probably sell<br>
more than all the UK tech companies put together, there are bound<br>
to be _some_ QC issues.<br>
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