I've been using these Hitachi Deskstar 1TB drives for over a year now in
mirrored configuration in three Netgear Stora NAS boxes (6 drives in total)
without a problem:
http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=Hitachi+HDT721010SLA360&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1365&bih=922&ion=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=5249430671194243224&sa=X&ei=rvgHUMeDO4LG0QXY0OzGBA&ved=0CEUQ8wIwAA
Can't help with the local sellers though, I would also go to Novatech if I
wanted to do a collect, otherwise I tend to use Ebuyer.
Regards
Peter
On 18 July 2012 23:33, Chris. Aubrey-Smith <cas194@???> wrote:
> ".....a SATA drive in the 1 TB size that will last longer than 30
> seconds and costs less than a fortune? "
>
> I share your pain...
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On 18/07/2012, Dr A. J. Trickett <adam.trickett@???> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a pair of Samsung Spinpoint 0.5 TB drives in a mirrored pair in my
> > home
> > server. One of them is now producing:
> >
> > smartd[..]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 38 Currently unreadable (pending)
> > sectors
> >
> > warnings. The SMART health of the drive is good, but I understand that
> this
> >
> > means next time these sectors are written to it will be remapped to spare
> > sectors.
> >
> > This isn't fatal as long as the rate of growth remains low but I gather
> now
> > is
> > a good time to get a new drive. I have a spare low mileage Spinpoint of
> the
> >
> > same size I can swap into the array but I would like to replace the spare
> > with
> > something else.
> >
> > BTW, I have good backups of my data...!
> >
> > Any suggestions for a SATA drive in the 1 TB size that will last longer
> than
> >
> > 30 seconds and costs less than a fortune? Since all the smaller drive
> firms
> >
> > got gobbled up I've only got Seagate and Western Digital to choose from
> as
> > far
> > as I can tell.
> >
> > Other than Novatech any other local firms to look at to buy disks from?
> >
> > --
> > Adam Trickett
> > Overton, HANTS, UK
> >
> > Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfilment.
> > -- Jean Baudrillard
> >
>
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