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Is it the VelociRaptor? Or the WD AV or the WD Black?
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Enterprise has more warranty whilst delivering the acceptably comparable performance.Of those choices I say WDC Black.
Blacks still have 5-year warranty too.Basically same performance as WD Black but 5-years of warranty instead of 3-years...
Enterprise and blacks are the same except for hardware raid
RE: <10 in 10^16 or <1 in 10^15 depending on model.
Okay, for reference:
Blue: Standard desktop drives
Green: Low power drives (variable speed)
Red: For NAS storage (variable speed)
Red Pro: For NAS storage (spec'ed like an enterprise drive)
Purple: For A/V security systems.
Black: High performance
Velociraptor: High speed drive
RE4: Enterprise drive
That's pretty much most of the hard drives you'll deal with from WDC.
If you had three drives die in the same spot there is a high chance that the reason is something else.
Is it the VelociRaptor? Or the WD AV or the WD Black?
Why do they go about 5-7 years between upgrades? You could very likely skip one or even two whole cycles if you upgrade those to SSDs.Office machines I build all have blue drives and I've never had to replace one.
Most of my customers go about 5-7 years between upgrades.
Why do they go about 5-7 years between upgrades? You could very likely skip one or even two whole cycles if you upgrade those to SSDs.
The RE have totally different motor and bearings and probably most other parts, completely different grade than blacks.