January 28, 201412 yr I think I have the record for the "most bounced around" set of drives with a shipment I received last summer. I've posted this before ... but just for grins, here's the picture ... And this is exactly what you wanted (as stated on the box) ;D
January 28, 201412 yr Wow, surprised by the backblaze statistics on the Seagate ST3000DM001 drives I have. I haven't had a single issue, so fingers crossed! Just had a ST3000DM001 die last week another has some pending sectors. Both were put through 3 preclear cycles before being used on a Windows VM. I have 2x ST3000DM001 and 2x ST2000DM001. Both have a bit over 10,000 hours on them (about 14 months) and they are all in perfect condition. Not a single reallocated sector, nor pending reallocation. Hopefully they stay that way. I have quite a few of them 16. 2 of which have died so not too bad odds wise. Wish they had been in unRAID array where I would have been able to monitor them better. Most of them are on a port multiplier in external drive cage and unless I use the highpoint controller I don't get access to the smart data. HDTune pro looks like it is getting the data until you look closer and realize the data never changes so is just reading the first drive. The one that died was on MB ports (however) and gave NO indication it was dieing. One day it was present the next Windows (standalone box not VM) would no longer recognize it. Bios shows the drive but both Linux and Windows ignore it and 2.2TB of recordings vanished. That's the problem I always had with Seagate drives in the past. They would run perfectly fine for me until they died with no warning. My WD drives just seemed to have a better record at letting me know of problems even if I had a higher failure rate. My Hitachi's are the best drives I've got. Of the 20+ 2, 3 & 4TB drives I've only lost 1 drive. A few others are working well even with a few relocated sectors and other smart errors. I would never trust my Seagates or WD drives as much. At least with WD Green drives anyway.
January 30, 201412 yr http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/storage-hardware/selecting-a-disk-drive-how-not-to-do-research-1.html
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