Yeah I'm still a little leery of the odd (non disclosed) spindle speeds and timing in a raid is kinda important. But the WD Reds have gotten such varying reviews I'm not sure I want to go that route either ... Which leaves the RE4's, Constellation's, & Ultrastar's (Samsung seems to not want to play in this arena any longer). Non of which are cheap, but all are good investments. While I have seen way to many Cuda's fail, anyone know how the Cuda XT's are fairing.
(see off semi topic rambling moved to bottom) I know some people are using the WD blacks in raids with good success but for the price diff the RE4's are not that much more.
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JMO, but in my experience, if you have ANY relocated sectors, the drives life is limited after that.
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Overall I agree, but exp has shown it's not a forgone conclusion it will die soon. It should be monitored to see if it's an isolated occurrence or not. Not sure why I'm fighting this point ..... Loss of sectors = Bad. Your basically gambling from that point forward.
It's going to be a bit until I can make an offer, but I am interested.
As for the charging friends & family, I use to not do it, but for a while now it's a pretty low figure but just enough to make it so not everyone is constently bugging me. And I started taping the restore disks (2 to a sleeve) to the inside of the cases.
But only for the family and friends. Others get recharged; I love those because I'll still charge you for the full rebuild even if I have the image. Not my fault you lost the media.
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I got a 750 Momentus XT a while back and have tested/used it in many diff scenario's. It's a rather interesting/impressive little drive. Runs very cool even with it's rather large power requirements. It out performed (2) striped seagate 7200.2's in my laptop; and is currently being used in a CFW PS3 with great success. Yes it's very much a waste of a hybrid SATA 3 but the 8 GB SSD does actually make a noticeable difference in load times when put head to head with a another CFW 7200 PS3. Tho the main benefits are it's size & lack of heat in the PS3. Only real issue with the Momentus XT is I have not been able to get an image restored to it that functions. Guessing that hybrid's and imaging software are not going to workout that well.