Hard drive for Raid

After spending some time to search for a good hard drive for my Raid 10 configuration, I decided that this would be a good option.


Some suggestion from Newegg clients are really helpful, such as this one

ammcinnis on 12/8/2010:

Pros: I have two of these 1 TB drives in a RAID 1 array. Cool, fast, quiet, huge capacity, and (so far) reliable. Purchased on sale from NewEgg for $49.99 each, they are an outstanding value (at least for this year).

Cons: Packaging by NewEgg's warehouse still leaves a lot to be desired. Double-boxing (which they did) is certainly the correct way to do it, but double-boxing loses most of its value when the inner box is placed right up against the walls of the outer box or the inner box is free to bounce around. I suspect poor packaging is the primary reasons for many of the early failures reported here and elsewhere.

Other Thoughts: I have about a dozen Seagate 7200.11 (640 GB) and 7200.12 (500 GB, 1 TB) series disks currently in 24/7/365 service, with zero failures to date. Keep them cool and protected and they can provide good, reliable service for a long time. 

Seagate now routinely posts firmware updates on their web site for download. I highly recommend that you always update to the latest firmware, run SMART self tests (conveyance, short, and extended) on the drive, and allow the disk to "burn in" for a couple of days before placing ANY new disk drive into service. At these prices, I also highly recommend running disks in mirrored RAID 1 pairs or other redundant arrays. Someday you'll be glad you did.




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