Hey guys and gals,

I know that in 2010 and 2011, when it came to hard drive upgrades, all the rave was about Ears versus EAD drives when it came to Western Digital hard drives With us being well into 2012 and the green drives changing from a year ago, where do you stand on hard drive upgrades for your MSS when it comes to the WD brand?

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For WD I went to the wd blacks.
I still have some active eads.
ears work as long as you install the jumper or align it prior to use since it is a advanced format.

Thanks for that information. What are your thoughts on this:
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-3 ... gital+eads

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EX495: 3x1.5TB * MacBook Pro * 27" iMac i7 * Custom PC
64GB iPad 3G * 64GB iPhone 4S * AppleTV * 500GB PlayStation 3 * PlayStation Vita 3G * 1TB Tivo 3
Denon 2807 * 60" Sony SXRD * Onkyo 5.1
Blu-ray: 297

Funny how none of the Western Digital Green drives have their rotational speed posted. Cache, yes, speed, no. Since these are going to be 5400 RPM drives, they will be not be the best choice for a boot drive on a computer. For servers and archival drives on a computer, they are fine.

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John E Pombrio
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What I ended up doing was going with these which cost about $5 more and are 7200 RPM:
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-C ... =de_a_smtd

Now, if I feel like a drive is going back and I have duplication turned on, I simply should turn off the server, replace the drive and voila, I should be set yes?

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EX495: 3x1.5TB * MacBook Pro * 27" iMac i7 * Custom PC
64GB iPad 3G * 64GB iPhone 4S * AppleTV * 500GB PlayStation 3 * PlayStation Vita 3G * 1TB Tivo 3
Denon 2807 * 60" Sony SXRD * Onkyo 5.1
Blu-ray: 297

Yep, that's a good choice. Not MY 1st choice but I have a lloonnnggg history with hard drive manufacturers and settled on Samsung drives a while ago (not many available anymore, darn it). Check to see what the drive temperature is in the server as a drive that runs cool will be less likely to fail. You prob do not have to worry about disk failures much, they have improved immeasurably in the past 10 years.
Still waiting for drives to come down in price as I am running out of space even with 25TB available over several machines.

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John E Pombrio
Do not meddle in the affair of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Well the thing is, one of the drives is running hotter than the others and my admin panel has told me that there is a bad sector on the drive. So I figured I would stay proactive and replace the drive before having it go down and having to scramble. So if the drive is going down, is the method I mentioned appropriate?

And I totally get the hard drive thing. Long time ago, I stuck with WD and for the most part I haven't had issues, some 20-30 hard drives in these past 10 years. But I know another person will have the exact opposite experience.

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EX495: 3x1.5TB * MacBook Pro * 27" iMac i7 * Custom PC
64GB iPad 3G * 64GB iPhone 4S * AppleTV * 500GB PlayStation 3 * PlayStation Vita 3G * 1TB Tivo 3
Denon 2807 * 60" Sony SXRD * Onkyo 5.1
Blu-ray: 297