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blue68f100 · 07-13-2007, 05:57 AM

OEM drive only carry a 1 yr warranty. Where Retail have 3-5 yr depending on mfg. If you were to use the WD SE drives design for servers you get 5yr warranty. Seagates have worked very well in the past but you need to run SpinRite on them to see what kind of trouble to expect. My WD have tested clean where Seagates had a bunch of bad sectors with 1 having a bad seek problem. The sectors were taken care of, but there is nothing you can do if a drive has a bad seek problem, except have it replaced. This at time can cause problems.

07-13-2007, 05:57 AM	#9
blue68f100 Thermophile Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 3,135	Re: Calling all Snap 4000 Users... OEM drive only carry a 1 yr warranty. Where Retail have 3-5 yr depending on mfg. If you were to use the WD SE drives design for servers you get 5yr warranty. Seagates have worked very well in the past but you need to run SpinRite on them to see what kind of trouble to expect. My WD have tested clean where Seagates had a bunch of bad sectors with 1 having a bad seek problem. The sectors were taken care of, but there is nothing you can do if a drive has a bad seek problem, except have it replaced. This at time can cause problems. __________________ 1 Snap 4500 - 1.0T (4 x 250gig WD2500SB RE), Raid5, 1 Snap 4500 - 1.6T (4 x 400gig Seagates), Raid5, 1 Snap 4200 - 4.0T (4 x 2gig Seagates), Raid5, Using SATA converts from Andy Link to SnapOS FAQ's http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=13820