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

[jedi]

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.