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Answer» Would this rig setup work out? Not to be blunt but never..ever suggest a WD Green HDD... Seconded. I avoid WD whenever possible, to be honest...real shame when they bought Hitachi and Samsung bought Seagate. Quote from: Calum on October 03, 2013, 12:07:48 PM ......real shame when they (WD, sic) bought Hitachi and Samsung bought Seagate.Correct on the former, incorrect on the latter. WD acquired HGST, Seagate acquired Samsung's Hard Disk Drive business. http://www.hgst.com/ http://www.seagate.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/seagate-completes-aquisition-samsungs-hdd-business-pr/Oops...I knew that, I got them the wrong way round. Thanks for catching that. And yes, by Hitachi, I meant HGST, would've been quite the achievement (and somewhat pointless) for WD to have bought all of Hitachi's many divisions!I didn't know about either, so had to look it up. HGST acquired IBM disk drives sometime in the past. Not many disk drives manufacturers anymore. BTW, I've had better luck with WD than you. My WD Scorpio Black, 7200rpm notebook drive (16MB cache) is almost as fast & quiet as an SSD.Indeed, it's crazy how they've all merged and bought each other, and we're basically left with two big players, plus Toshiba on the sidelines. I had a WD Blue drive in about 2006 that was OK, served me well for a year or two. When I was building day in/day out we used Seagate and a few Samsung drives, I liked the Samsung drives so I bought quite a lot back then, had one fail but it was taken out by a PSU. The rest are still going strong. When Seagate had some production issues, or we had trouble getting stock, I forget which...we switched to WD drives in builds and the failure rate was incredible. We went from maybe 1 a week DOA, to 10 or 15, plus some with weird incompatibility issues. These were the Blue drives, WD5000AAKS and AAKX when they switched over to maki9ng pointless SATA3 HDDs. Very strange because it wasn't a well publicised thing, I had always been under the impression that there wasn't much in it in terms of reliability and that's what we saw, right up until we actually had to depend on WD. Never bought another WD product since, but then I haven't bought another HDD since I bought all those Samsungs either, now I just have the one 2TB left in a USB3 caddy and I have SSDs for everything else.In no way did i intend to cast aspersions on WD as a manufacturer... I've had nothing but good luck with both the Caviar and Black lines of HDD's... I simply meant to state the Green series are pure junk. Quote from: patio on October 03, 2013, 02:12:00 PM In no way did i intend to cast aspersions on WD as a manufacturer... I personally have never had an issue with them. My WD Greens run practically 24/7 and have been going strong for 4+ years. I have had more issues with Seagate drives dying on me. Perhaps different countries / working ENVIRONMENTS for our drives. Best drives I have ever had. When working in a repair environment I saw many broken Seagate, Samsung, Toshiba, and Hitachi drives. We dealt solely in WD replacements and never had a return.I'm stunned and amazed you have 4 year old Greens that still run... Good on you. Quote from: Kurtiskain on October 03, 2013, 03:41:48 PM I personally have never had an issue with them. My WD Greens run practically 24/7 and have been going strong for 4+ years. I have had more issues with Seagate drives dying on me. Perhaps different countries / working environments for our drives. Best drives I have ever had. When working in a repair environment I saw many broken Seagate, Samsung, Toshiba, and Hitachi drives. We dealt solely in WD replacements and never had a return. Interesting that we've had exactly opposite experiences. Just goes to show that even with a large sample size, it's hard to draw conclusions. I am also stunned that your Green drives are still going strong, I have seen more of those fail than any other model of WD, and I've seen every WD line fail more than any other manufacturer.It is indeed extremely interesting. I would say personally I sold at least 500 drives in that time span with no returned drives. I must also say we only used WD Blue in laptop replacements with the Greens as desktop drives. As my last off topic post in this thread I shall take pictures for you with the manuf. dates and model on them if you like and post here as PROOF next case cleaning time. Perhaps NZ gets all the good Green drives? Quote Perhaps NZ gets all the good Green drives?Perhaps so! I'm not doubting what you're saying at all, it's just incredible how different our experiences have been. We must've had 500 faulty drives alone in the time we used WD drives, potentially more. |
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