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wrote: I always try to buy the WD 'black' drives with a 5yr guarantee. They keep juggling the drive level behind those colors. You should take the designation as such, with a grain of salt. no they don't. |
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On 2019-08-29 9:26 p.m., Paul wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote: On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:52:30 -0400, Rabid Robot wrote: On 2019-08-29 12:13 a.m., nospam wrote: In article , VanguardLH wrote: And remember, if you are using an SSD, that those writes to the hiberfil.sys are on your SSD which has a limited number of writes. hard drives don't last forever either and they're far more likely to fail than an ssd, which will normally outlast the device it's in. I wouldn't trust a hard disk at all nowadays. The last one internal one I purchased, a WD Blue 2.5" one, last about 8 months. I knew that I could send it in for warranty but I was looking to get rid of the laptop it was in anyway and couldn't be bothered. Total crap to say the least. I always try to buy the WD 'black' drives with a 5yr guarantee. They keep juggling the drive level behind those colors. You should take the designation as such, with a grain of salt. It really is a treacherous world we live in. http://forums.storagereview.com/inde...ck-wd4005fzbx/ And a lubricant excuse ? WTF??? Why do you need to drop the flying height, to make a 4TB drive ? 4TB drives were "perfected" years ago. You don't need to ruin them. This is why you *cannot* keep buying the same color. Because they keep ruining them. Sometimes, the drive size matters. The 6TB may be a superior product to the 4TB or 2TB models. Even though you may not want 6TB of capacity, maybe you get a better design that way. Just about every time I've read the customer reviews, I've discovered reasons to not buy certain stuff. The above thread is an example, a warning of sorts. Now, I couldn't buy one of those 4TB ones. Some other WDC products, that normally spin 24/7, the newer models use "fast sleep" and it's like having a laptop drive in your desktop. (You're all the time "waking it up".) That's not why we pay a premium for those things. We expect them to remain spinning and ready to go, and not be messing around. I have a 500GB drive with 47000 hours on it, that never stops spinning or parking the heads. It still has spotless SMART statistics too. It is possible for a drive to last for a long time... When you find a unit that works that well, it's like winning the lottery. Â*Â* Paul Would that be the ST3500418AS model, If so I have 2 of them spinning happily going on 10 years now and still show good smart specs. Rene |
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Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-08-29 9:26 p.m., Paul wrote: Eric Stevens wrote: On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:52:30 -0400, Rabid Robot wrote: On 2019-08-29 12:13 a.m., nospam wrote: In article , VanguardLH wrote: And remember, if you are using an SSD, that those writes to the hiberfil.sys are on your SSD which has a limited number of writes. hard drives don't last forever either and they're far more likely to fail than an ssd, which will normally outlast the device it's in. I wouldn't trust a hard disk at all nowadays. The last one internal one I purchased, a WD Blue 2.5" one, last about 8 months. I knew that I could send it in for warranty but I was looking to get rid of the laptop it was in anyway and couldn't be bothered. Total crap to say the least. I always try to buy the WD 'black' drives with a 5yr guarantee. They keep juggling the drive level behind those colors. You should take the designation as such, with a grain of salt. It really is a treacherous world we live in. http://forums.storagereview.com/inde...ck-wd4005fzbx/ And a lubricant excuse ? WTF??? Why do you need to drop the flying height, to make a 4TB drive ? 4TB drives were "perfected" years ago. You don't need to ruin them. This is why you *cannot* keep buying the same color. Because they keep ruining them. Sometimes, the drive size matters. The 6TB may be a superior product to the 4TB or 2TB models. Even though you may not want 6TB of capacity, maybe you get a better design that way. Just about every time I've read the customer reviews, I've discovered reasons to not buy certain stuff. The above thread is an example, a warning of sorts. Now, I couldn't buy one of those 4TB ones. Some other WDC products, that normally spin 24/7, the newer models use "fast sleep" and it's like having a laptop drive in your desktop. (You're all the time "waking it up".) That's not why we pay a premium for those things. We expect them to remain spinning and ready to go, and not be messing around. I have a 500GB drive with 47000 hours on it, that never stops spinning or parking the heads. It still has spotless SMART statistics too. It is possible for a drive to last for a long time... When you find a unit that works that well, it's like winning the lottery. Paul Would that be the ST3500418AS model, If so I have 2 of them spinning happily going on 10 years now and still show good smart specs. Rene Yes, that's the one. Mine still has Win2K on it. https://i.postimg.cc/mkSJg09N/ST3500418-AS.gif I could probably remove the tiny spikes on that, with some extra effort. But it's still pretty enough the way it is. Paul |
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