Hello.
I have had a warning message of "PredFail" from SMART for my current systems hard drive a Hitachi 2TB drive so am looking for a new drive to clone this to and replace with.
Unfortunately the Hitachi is just out of the two year warranty as well. The only other drives I've had issues with in the past have been an IBM DeskStar and a Maxtor drive.
I'm thinking of getting a Western Digital drive now. I've had one WD internal drive in the past in an old computer that never had any issues. And I believe a Quantum one I had was pretty good too. I also have an external WD drive.
I know that the SE version of the internal Western Digital drives are designed for Enterprise use? but would it be okay to use this in a desktop system?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-446-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=2270
I like that this has a lot of anti-vibration technology built in and a sensor. Their black drives seem pretty good and have some basic protection but I think for a similar price this seems to have more protection and has that 5 year warranty too.
Can you see any downside with using this in a desktop system?
The only other thing I was thinking of was looking at laptop drives as I believe its possible some of these may have better protection from vibrations etc? The only issue would be getting an adapter to put in to a desktop drive bay.
Thanks
John
I have had a warning message of "PredFail" from SMART for my current systems hard drive a Hitachi 2TB drive so am looking for a new drive to clone this to and replace with.
Unfortunately the Hitachi is just out of the two year warranty as well. The only other drives I've had issues with in the past have been an IBM DeskStar and a Maxtor drive.
I'm thinking of getting a Western Digital drive now. I've had one WD internal drive in the past in an old computer that never had any issues. And I believe a Quantum one I had was pretty good too. I also have an external WD drive.
I know that the SE version of the internal Western Digital drives are designed for Enterprise use? but would it be okay to use this in a desktop system?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-446-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=2270
I like that this has a lot of anti-vibration technology built in and a sensor. Their black drives seem pretty good and have some basic protection but I think for a similar price this seems to have more protection and has that 5 year warranty too.
Can you see any downside with using this in a desktop system?
The only other thing I was thinking of was looking at laptop drives as I believe its possible some of these may have better protection from vibrations etc? The only issue would be getting an adapter to put in to a desktop drive bay.
Thanks
John