March 9, 201214 yr Over the years that I had WHS and now unRAID, I've seen my fair share of drives that need RMA'ing. Usually it's SMART data that tips me off, or I notice a drive clicking when I'm close to the server one day. Well, at 10:47 last night, unMENU sent me an automated email to let me know that a disk had been disabled. I logged into unMENU, looked at the logs, and saw the write error on the drive in question. I powered down the server(something I never do ) using unMENU's clean powerdown, and resolved to look into it further today. Powered up the server this afternoon. After a few moments I hear a buzz. Sure enough, this drive is TOAST. It's an older Seagate 1.5TB drive. Warranty is good until 1/2013, so I'll be RMA'ing it. Good thing Best Buy has 2TB Seagate Greens for $119 right now (can't believe I'm HAPPY to be paying $119! )
March 10, 201214 yr I'll be getting my 1 TB caviar black on Monday after RMA'ing it. I've had the drive for around 4 years now, and it had the 5 year warranty. Got the drive back pretty quick honestly, once I finally remembered to give it to UPS. It road around in the car with me for about 2 weeks. I'm just not sure what I want to use it for. I'm considering selling it and getting a green drive. I don't need the extra RPM's and its too small to be my parity and too big to be my cache(most I ever have on the cache drive is around 30 GB so I use a 80 GB 7200 2.5" drive that I salvaged from a torn up PS3). Plus the caviar black goes for $150 now, and WD Green 2TB drives go for around $130, so if I can get rid of it for $100-120 I'll I'll gladly put an extra $20 and get another 1TB of space,
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