Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The lubricant will not dry up in your lifetime. Take 2 aspirin and forget that excuse...... WD and Seagate drives die at about the same rate. Once in a while. Neither is better, neither is worse. If you want better reliability, go buy the Enterprise drives form either.... Brian has stated they are better built,..... WD: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/enterprise/ Seagate: http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/ Frank Filippone Red735i at verizon.net Hi Leo, the drive that just died is a Western Digital, but I have Seagate dying on me too. I have half a dozen dead drives from a number of systems in the drawer and half are probably Seagate and half are Western Digital. Sonny, the problem is that if you do keep multiple copies, then by definition, some of the older drives will be sitting around, and drives that sit around is a concern as the lubricant may dry up. Mark, the problem with drives use latest and greatest tech is that the manufacturers are not concentrating on reliability, but on density (more TB for the $). In fact, at some point, they switched from lifetime warranty or 10 year down to 5. I won't be surprised if they are now just one year or three year warranty. Nevertheless, sounds like a cage with cheap internal drives may be an option. Thanks all.