I don't care about the label. It still is a WD drive. $99 for a 2TB is an awesome price.

 

 

http://www.goharddrive.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=G01-0229&Click=46406

 

 

 

I don't care about the label. It still is a WD drive. $99 for a 2TB is an awesome price.

 

 

http://www.goharddrive.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=G01-0229&Click=46406

 

 

 

 

LOL they quote "1 year warranty", but from who?  Good luck with that.

I don't care about the label. It still is a WD drive. $99 for a 2TB is an awesome price.

http://www.goharddrive.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=G01-0229&Click=46406

 

White label drives are disavowed by their manufacturers for a reason.  As for goharddrive.com, perhaps you should read their reviews before giving away $100 on a second rate drive... http://www.resellerratings.com/store/goHardDrive

 

As the saying goes, if it's too good to be true, it probably is.

I don't think I've ever seen such hilarious reviews...

 

One of many reasons I rarely shop anywhere except NE, amzn, and monoprice, plus a couple others.

After reading the reviews, does not look like a good place to buy anything from. I probably got all excited seeing a $99 price for a 2TB drive. In a couple months, hopefully they'll be $100 at Newegg. I'm hoping!

 

 

After reading the reviews, does not look like a good place to buy anything from. I probably got all excited seeing a $99 price for a 2TB drive. In a couple months, hopefully they'll be $100 at Newegg. I'm hoping!

 

Typically not.  The premium drives tend to not dip in price like the regular ones.

 

Not sure why you are focused on the WD Black.  If you were creating a RAID array where speed was most important, and there was lots of heavy I/O, I would say go for it.  But for a huge media array, where power efficiency, temperature control, and low cost are the primary factors, going "black" seems counter-intuitive.

I currently run a black parity 1tb drive along with several data drives, and writing to/from the black drives doesnt give me any noticeable incrwase compared to what others post on this board with green drives. I picked mine up for the warranty though since I plan to use these in different systems around the house as they become replaced (5 year warranty )

 

If I did it again though, I'd just get the green ones. If you want some superfast performance over long term archival, UNRAID isn't really what you should be using in the first place.

I tend to disagree, I think unRaid is a good candidate for 7200RPM drives. Most of the time the drives are spun down so any modern drive should be using virtually no power. Spin up and in use duty cycle vs spun down means green vs non green is a moot point.

 

My green drives dont seem to run any cooler vs non green drives. My Seagates are still the hottest drives in the array, WDs then Samsungs (Samsungs report lower temps by between 5-8 degs regardless of actual temp).

 

The only reason I have a bunch of green drives is because they are much cheaper and much more available. I have always run 7200RPM drives until 2TB, now the cost premium is too high, the only possible choice is the Hitachi GST and I have issues with the deathstar brand. If Seagate, Samsung or WD offered a 7200RPM 2TB drive at a 10% premium I'd have bought some of those.

I tend to disagree, I think unRaid is a good candidate for 7200RPM drives. Most of the time the drives are spun down so any modern drive should be using virtually no power. Spin up and in use duty cycle vs spun down means green vs non green is a moot point.

 

Depends on your usage patterns.  In my server, there's generally 3-6 drives spun up at any given time to seed torrents.  So for me green drives make sense.  For you 7200 rpm drives might make more sense.

... the only possible choice is the Hitachi GST and I have issues with the deathstar brand.

 

The Deathstar issue is so old it's interesting to me that people still bring it up.  Currently, Samsung and Seagate both have had significant issues with firmware on their drives over the past year.  My point is that all the manufacturers screw up, so relying on one brand is a little dubious.  I would much prefer to look at the track record of a specific drive model, in which case the Hitachi 2TB 7200 has done well.

I run some 7200 RPM drives in my server too. There are pros and cons. But I can't see investing in drives that are 2x the price to get a little faster disk.

Using my 100 watt server cost me approx $100/year. I use my server 24/7. Money is always tight but when I'm talking about $20-$30 in a year I won't fuss over.

 

Right now all my drives are 7200rpm and I'll be upgrading hopefully to a better more efficient power supply.

 

I've only used the best consumer edition Western Digital drives, and since my track record with them has been perfect I'm sticking with what I know works. I did try a Seagate drive once and it was loud and ran hot. Got rid of it.