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

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

I use Western Digital Green 3TB WD30EZRX for backup in an eSATA dock.
They have been performing well for a few years now.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:26 AM, B.S. via kwlug-disc
<kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
> The WD Red used to be 5, now 3 - but along has come Red Pro, which has 5.
>
> As do the Constellations.
>
> The WD RE does too, but I've lost track as to whether it's the old model naming line or not, vis a vis the NAS drives (RE has become Red Pro?). Or something.
>
> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/catalog/ notes there's an SE and AE now, too.
>
>
> There's 500GB free on the drive - I have a feeling that even if some sectors start going bad the btrfs checksumming will cause it to keep hunting for a sector until it finds a good one. Perhaps buying me some time to deal with things.
>
> Just ignore the bit rot lurking behind the curtain. (My guess as to the cause of the files going bad since last week's scrub.)
>
> 'course if it's a mechanical / spindle issue ... it's just going to drop on me.
>
> smartctl -H says it's to die within 24 hours. We'll see.
>
> <grumble>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: L.D. Paniak <ldpaniak at fourpisolutions.com>
>> To: B.S. <bs27975 at yahoo.ca>; KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 10:34 PM
>> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] 4TB drive throwing errors - what's current drive thinking these days?
>>
>> 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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