[ale] The perpetual question: best current HDD?

[Brian Mathis]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> Brian,
>
> On Tue, January 8, 2013 1:16 pm, Brian Mathis wrote:
>>
>> Check the storagereview.com leaderboard
>> (http://www.storagereview.com/best_drives) for recommendations on
>> their best drives for each category.  They are impartial and do a lot
>> of reviews.
>>
>> Many people will swear by one brand or another, but that is mostly
>> anecdotal and thus meaningless.
>
> That page looks great, except it does not have anything about 3.5"
> internal enterprise SATA drives.  Am I overlooking something?
>
>> â § Brian Mathis
>
> -derek


I was mainly pointing out the site itself which has a lot of
information on drives, and does have a whole section on Enterprise
drives: http://www.storagereview.com/reviews/enterprise/hdd

As far as warranties go, they are mainly a financial construct, and
don't necessarily have anything to do with the quality of the drive
itself.  A company *might* design or test a drive differently if it
has a longer warranty to balance the additional cost of the drive with
the cost of replacing them later, but there's no guarantee of that.
Warranties are about money, not quality.  A longer warranty simply
means more failures over a drive's lifetime, so higher cost for the
company in replacements.


❧ Brian Mathis