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Originally Posted by blue68f100
Phoenix,
SE, RE, actually it's SB (WD2500SB) for the Raid Edition, Was close. WD std retail drives are 3 yr. I don't know on OEM, they seam to change it on a regular basis. I don't buy them any more. Like you, have had problems with OEM, but in my case they lasted over 1 yr.
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SE =
Special
Edition
Family
RE =
RAID
Edition
Family
SE = Mainstream 7200 RPM Drives with a
MODEL NUMBER ending with
JB for EIDE Drives. SE16 are the same thing as SE except with 16 MB Cache and ending with
KB on the
MODEL NUMBER for EIDE Drives.
RE = Enterprise 7200 RPM Drives, made specific for RAID use and other Enterprise type operations, with a
MODEL NUMBER ending with
SB for the EIDE Drives. There are RE2, but they only come in SATA.
There is a lot of confusion out there about what an OEM drive is. A TRUE OEM DRIVE (from any drive company) is a drive sold to an OEM (
Original
Equipment
Manufacturer) like Dell, Gateway, HP, etc and in most cases carry no warranty at all except from the OEM itself. What you buy from newegg and the like that is marked on their web sites as OEM are not really OEM drives in most cases (but they can be, from OEM overstocks), and are just non retail boxed bare drives (no utilities, no cables, etc). These are sometimes referred to as "white box" units. Retail Boxed, and "white box" drives have a warranty 99% of the time. Depending on the drive manufacturer, they may be the same or very different on length.
I have found most "white box" WD drives are every bit as good as their Retail brothers. And in MOST (not all) cases, carry the same warranty as the retail units also. Seagate on the other hand is quite the opposite. Their "white box" units have a shorter warranty in MOST (but not all) cases. It is also much easier to run across Seagate TRUE OEM drives on online seller shelves for whatever reason, which have ZERO warranty.
In any case, I have found WD drives are more reliable than Seagate drives, but to each their own.
Tsk tsk tsk David. You should know better than to test me on hardware...
