decent raid5 drive with a 5 year warrant

gigeorge · 28 Apr 2012 at 10:28

WD used to offer 5 year warrantys and have had to make use of this in the past and i'm intending on getting a synology ds411j and dont want to have to be swapping the drives out every 5 minutes through failure..

Ideas guys...

Surveyor · 28 Apr 2012 at 10:35

I belive the only WD drives now with a 5 year warranty are the Caviar Black, the Scorpio Black and the RE Enterprise Class.

gigeorge · 28 Apr 2012 at 10:52

Are they suitable for raid5 kinda usage!?

Surveyor · 28 Apr 2012 at 11:34

The RE drives are particularly suitable but they are relatively expensive.

gigeorge · 28 Apr 2012 at 15:47

I think im going to get 4 of the Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB's and a synology ds411j

Surveyor · 28 Apr 2012 at 15:57

I can't say I know much about the Ultrastar but they are Enterprise Class drives similar to the WD RE and seem to have a 5 year warranty.

Hitachi's HDD division has been bought by WD.

I don't know how this will affect the future availability of Hitachi drives.

Maybe they'll end up selling the same drive just under 2 different names.

gigeorge · 28 Apr 2012 at 16:21

Cheers for the info

Surveyor · 28 Apr 2012 at 16:39

gigeorge said:
Cheers for the info guys

You're welcome.

From me and everyone else who posted.....