Best kind of hard drive for heavy use?
markham breitbach
markham at ssimicro.com
Tue Sep 13 22:31:49 UTC 2016
I've always had pretty good results from the WD-RE drives, and I've had
many of them operating under much less than ideal conditions. I have had
a few of them fail out on me through the years, but not <40K hours.
Model Family: Western Digital RE3 Serial ATA
Device Model: WDC WD5002ABYS-01B1B0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 015 015 000 Old_age
Always - 62319
Model Family: Western Digital RE3 Serial ATA
Device Model: WDC WD7502ABYS-02A6B0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 020 020 000 Old_age
Always - 58855
Model Family: Western Digital RE3 Serial ATA
Device Model: WDC WD1002FBYS-02A6B0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 029 029 000 Old_age
Always - 52014
I am currently using some RED drives as an rsync daily backup target for
a couple dozen servers, so needless to say these guys are under pretty
heavy load. The RED are a tad on the slow side, though, and generally
seem to have a higher failure rate.
Model Family: Western Digital Red (AF)
Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 060 060 000 Old_age
Always - 29803
-Markham
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