[AusNOG] Possibly useful device for data retention?

[Adam Sando]

Chris may be referring to the following issue WD had with their Green drives from several years back (all fixed with some firmware updates):
http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=954169

Seagate had similar problems around early 2009 (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-7200.11-failing,6844.html) with their 1TB Barracuda drives dying within months of purchase, also affecting Apple users years later (http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/22/apple_recalling_very_small_number_of_imac_hard_drives).

You'd hope both Seagate and WD would have learnt a thing or two from these debacles and solved drive lifespans in the last few years :)

Cheers,
Adam.

-----Original Message-----
From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Karl Auer
Sent: Monday, 29 June 2015 7:43 PM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Possibly useful device for data retention?

On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 17:09 +0800, Chris Legg wrote:
> 100 years? If it's anything like the WD Green drives you'll be lucky 
> if they last 2 years.

Tell me more. I understood WD Greens to be aimed at the desktop market, where they should last fine and they are half the price or less of the higher-end ones. Run them 24/7 and they'll fail, give them an ordinary desktop's duty cycle where they spend two-thirds of their lives idle or off, and they should last OK...?

If you've seen test data that says otherwise, do tell! Because WD is certainly selling them as suitable for desktops.

Regards, K.

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