Well back in the day I bought my 400GB for $200 each. I’ve probably had four or five die on me last few years both Seagate and Western Digital. Even though data was safe in my ReadyNAS through the years I attritube failure to heat. Those puppies would get 65 C/ 149 F that is as hot as hell is I’m sure.
Seagate used to be fine but evidently last year or so many reports they suck too. So who is the new king? Samsung check out 1.5TB drive at 23 C / 73 F or even 27 C / 80 F which is lower than Western Digital 33C / 91 F. So 23 C or 33C? Yea I’ll take the 10 C cooler one. Next step is get five more Samsumg 1.5TB hds top populate both my ReadyNAS devices. So grats to those Koreans as Samsung seems to be putting out the coolest 1.5TB harddrives which is critical for longterm life.
Update Feb 2010 now got all 1.5TB drives and Samsung still running cooler than Western Digital.
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