[kwlug-disc] 4TB drive throwing errors - what's current drive thinking these days?

[L.D. Paniak]

Don't forget the Gold drives:
http://www.storagereview.com/wd_gold_datacenter_hdds_announced

For other peoples' data use enterprise drives.

For your own data, it is hard to beat a 5yr warranty drive.  2/3 more
"lease" time than a 3yr drive.
Are there any 5yr retail drives besides WD Black?
That said, I have been getting good performance and reliability from
Seagate ST2000VN000 drives
even though they are 3yr warranty.  They have good reviews at the usual
places, have options up
to 8TB and are well priced.

On 04/20/2016 12:22 PM, B.S. via kwlug-disc wrote:
> One of my WD4001FAEX-00MJRA0 4TB Sata III drives is now throwing off errors. What's current thinking on drives and colours these days?
>
> smartctl -H is now showing failure, showed PASSED a week ago. More importantly, btrfs scrub is throwing off a few hundred errors - this after a scrub last week that only threw 5 fixable errors (after restoring a half dozen other problematic files).
>
> Seems since my last look, WD has even more colours out there by which to confuse. If anyone has clarity, that would be useful.
>
> Past list consensus seemed to be that only WD Black made sense for the use case / time - 5 year warranty (i.e. manufacturer has more confidence in their product), 7200 rpm, 6 Gbps. Intellipower issues were reported, so seems to be best to avoid that. (I don't raid, rsync'ing to other machines instead, so multi-GB backups fly across the house nightly.) WD Red has gone to 3 year warranty, in favour of 'Red Pro' now. Blue, Black, Red, Red Pro, NAS, RE, RE pro ... bah!
>
> The other drive of that ilk seems to be Seagate Constellations, but I don't recall having any experience with them to know.
>
> What's current thinking on drives these days?
>
>
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