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

[William Park]

At work, we use Seagate SV 1TB a lot.  Not sure how that extrapolate to
4TB.
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William

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 04:22:35PM +0000, 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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