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I've used all brands of drives over the last 20 years or so. From time to time, one manufacturer may have something wrong that causes a higher than normal failure rate. When that happens, the problem usually gets resolved and some other manufacturer develops a problem next. The process repeats. I buy drives based on capacity, interface, size and price.
Look at their newer ones ... their higher density platters means higher transfer rates too.
The thing is, WD drives don't play well in RAID situations, and Seagate can be miss or hit. That leaves Hitachi and Samsung, both of which do work fine in RAIDs.
I have to agree that my comments about Samsung were based on dated experience. For all I know, their newer drives improved a lot but as far as WD drives and RAID goes. I have never had any issue. I had issues using 2 Maxtor drives in RAID-0 on 2 different mobos and both turned out to be due to the cheesy mobo's onboard RAID controller. One mobo was ECS (no shocker) but the other one was an older Asus mobo with NForce2 chipset.
WD Raptors kicked and still kick@zz in RAID-0 bar-none!
Still, even Raptors in RAID-0 cannot hold a candle to OCZ's Vertex2 which makes all platter based drives look bad.
Anyhow, for those interested, using the same system I ran 3 separate benchmarks using AS SSD Benchmark tool available from TheGuruof3D and I got the following results.
This one is between the 60GB OCZ Vertex2 (left side) and 2x 150GB WD Raptor drives in RAID-0 (right side):
The second one is between the same OCZ SSD (left side) and a 1TB WD Cavier Blue in an external Kingwin SATA Docking station connected via USB2:
Horrible news, since Seagate is the most unreliable HDD manufacturer out there. One less purchasing option.
I was OK with WD:Hitachi because they're both quality manufacturers. A poor maker like Seagate (which earns its revenues as a result of selling cheaply to large vendors) buying up a respectable maker like Samsung is bad news.
And the commentary about not being able to RAID with WD is pretty ludicrous. Hell, I'm presently running a large RAID 10 array of WD Caviar Black drives.
And the commentary about not being able to RAID with WD is pretty ludicrous. Hell, I'm presently running a large RAID 10 array of WD Caviar Black drives.
Not ludicrous. WD's native error correction can interfere with the RAID system's error correction and cause issues.
No kidding? try reading your post then my comment, you took it completely opposite of how it was meant.
ah, sorry bout that. i see it now.
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