From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-158240-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DC4C13877A for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:46:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9FFDE09A8; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:45:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.168]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C4CE099F for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:45:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.136] (helo=smtp5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from <joost@antarean.org>) id 1XNFwb-0000Dk-MC for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:45:57 +0200 Received: from 53579160.cm-6-8c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.87.145.96] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from <joost@antarean.org>) id 1XNFwa-0008TO-6Y for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:45:57 +0200 Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [10.20.13.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D0DBE4B for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:45:33 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:45:51 +0200 Message-ID: <1922132.t5xodloySj@andromeda> Organization: Antarean User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.14.14-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20140828204510.GI26952@syscon7> References: <20140828204510.GI26952@syscon7> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Ziggo-spambar: --- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -3.6 X-Ziggo-spamreport: ALL_TRUSTED=-1,PROLO_TRUST_RDNS=-3,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.363 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: d22ca0cd-0f91-4e25-bf8f-a79607d68a57 X-Archives-Hash: 69c83f8c0ba7f106043cda2b9258f629 On Thursday, August 28, 2014 02:45:10 PM Joseph wrote: > I need to select 500GB or 1TB infernal 2.5in drive, any recommendation > (reliability) of the brand. My current WD 320GB fail after 5-years. I agree with the rest, 2 does not make a pattern. I use WDs extensively and only had a few failures. None of the failures led to dataloss. (Thanks to SMART and Backups) For 1GB spinning rust 2.5inch, I use WD Blue drives. They do the job they were bought for (cheap backup storage). After 5 years, you might want to consider replacing the laptop though (Assuming that's where the drive is) -- Joost