suggestions to replace my wd20ears

[panyan]

in fear of starting another western digital discussion , my drive is dying and before i send off for RMA, i want to back up my stuff to another drive. what drive would you suggest for me:

- i watch video files from it all day
- needs to be 2TB
- needs to less than £100
- NOT WD

also, your feelings on these enterprise/server drives would be intersting

thanks guys

 

[mraerosmith1981]

I have 8 of the samsung F4 2tb's, reasonably quiet, good performance, no issues in my server since patched

 

[panyan]

no issues in my server since patched

ummm, what? please explain

 

[Surveyor]

Some drives needed a firmware update:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18216204

 

[DragonQ]

Definitely F4EG. If you buy one new now you almost certainly wouldn't have to patch it.

 

[panyan]

F4 2tb's

Definitely F4EG

1) how is the samsung RMA if something goes wrong?

2) is it worth sticking 2 in as RAID or is that OTT?

 

[mraerosmith1981]

Well I have mine raided, OTT , probably but then I wouldn't want to lose any of my data, as to RMA, never had to do it with Samsung so I Couldn't say

 

[chippy08]

My last samsung RMA took 1 month.

 

[panyan]

My last samsung RMA took 1 month.

and was that a hard drive or a tv or something?

 

[adaswani]

Yea i generally prefer Samsung drives as they seemed to be tougher