Comments on: New Egg Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive for $69.99 w/ Free Shipping http://homeservershow.com/new-egg-seagate-barracuda-500gb-sata-30gbs-hard-drive-for-6999-w-free-shipping.html The Podcast for the Home Server Enthusiast. Windows Home Server, MediaSmart, NAS, etc. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:56:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: allenc3 http://homeservershow.com/new-egg-seagate-barracuda-500gb-sata-30gbs-hard-drive-for-6999-w-free-shipping.html#comment-41 allenc3 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:34:01 +0000 http://homeservershow.com/?p=85#comment-41 I would like to hear something on these low cost HDD vs. failures when used in a WHS. Ex: I bought two new WD Scorpio 120GB drives for my ThinkPad business notebook. I use two because I clone one to the other using Casper every week in case C: fails, I can be back up in ten minutes. Well, nine months after purchase, C: drive started making bad bearing noises and I replaced it under warranty. And I was back up in ten minutes after a drive swap. I heard Steve Gibson grc.com say that he was building a new PC and he bought four Hitachi 1TB server grade HDD's. I understand HP uses server class 2.5 inch HDD's in their rack mount business servers. Question: should we be buying server class HDD's for use in our WHS or not? Makes sense to me but what do they cost and how do you find them? I would like to hear something on these low cost HDD vs. failures when used in a WHS. Ex: I bought two new WD Scorpio 120GB drives for my ThinkPad business notebook. I use two because I clone one to the other using Casper every week in case C: fails, I can be back up in ten minutes. Well, nine months after purchase, C: drive started making bad bearing noises and I replaced it under warranty. And I was back up in ten minutes after a drive swap.

I heard Steve Gibson grc.com say that he was building a new PC and he bought four Hitachi 1TB server grade HDD’s. I understand HP uses server class 2.5 inch HDD’s in their rack mount business servers.

Question: should we be buying server class HDD’s for use in our WHS or not? Makes sense to me but what do they cost and how do you find them?

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