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Which 1.5tb drive for small company nas?

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i've waited as long as i can; i need to order new drives by monday morning latest. replacing existing 750gb drives with 1.5tb. we are going to get either the Seagate Baracuda 7200.11 $130, or Western Digital's Caviar Green WD15EADS $160. The drives are going into a NAS (no OS on these drives). I was hoping WD would have released a Black 1.5tb model by now so I would have more choices; bummer. Noise is of absolutely no concern, wattage difference between drives no concern, performance of minor concern - at most we might have two users simultaneously accessing the device/drive, reliability major concern.

Is the debacle with Seagate's 1.5tb drives over? Are they still stuttering/bricking problems -- because i'm really wondering if they somehow have a design flaw that their firmware updates are not able to fix? It seems some of the dust has settled, but I'm still seeing 5+% negative feedback on retailer forums. On the other hand, some techies who I somewhat trust have told me the issue(s) is definately resolved.

Someone smarter than me, shoot me opinions, please.


Message edited by rkaye on 03-28-2009 at 06:28:49 AM
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all I'm gonna say is I got my 1.5 six weeks ago, and not one problem, very fast. I did'nt update jack.

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Homeboy2 wrote :

all I'm gonna say is I got my 1.5 six weeks ago, and not one problem, very fast. I did'nt update jack.



brand/model/price?

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seagate 1.5 i got lucky and bought it from dell on sale for 82 bucks. wish i had bought a couple more

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I would not take a chance on the seagates. I bought three of them and two are dead. For the first 2~3 months they all were great very fast for my use but then they all started to show problems and the 1st actually died. With the latest firmware it brought the dead one back to life (only for a couple days) and the others seemed to work but had the second finaly die a couple weeks later.

With all the problems the 1.5 seagates have been it caused me to use the WD RE3 drives on my latest build which are about as fast but are noisier.

------------------------------ DFI LP UT X58-T3eH8|Core i7 920 @ 4000|TRUE Copper w/TR-FDB-2000 push-pull|G.SKILL PI Black 3x1GB PC3 16000| SeaSonic M12D SS-750|HIS HD 4670 512MB IceQ|4x 1tb WD RE3|1x Dvico FusionHDTV5 Gold 1x DViCO FusionHDTV7 Dual Express|1x WinTV-HVR-2250|FT01-BW

 

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I prefer the WD Green series you mentioned (WD15EADS). It also has a version with extended warranty. The key difference with other drives is that they run on 5400rpm, still have high throughput, but consume only half the power other drives are using. Should prove a reliable drive, which is probably most important for small companies.

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Homeboy2 wrote :

seagate 1.5 i got lucky and bought it from dell on sale for 82 bucks. wish i had bought a couple more



whoa. was it like a refurb or something? that's an unbelievable price! where did you buy/find it? dell.com? in-person at a store?

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