WD Caviar Black 1 TB, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache, WD1002FAEX

[Dainas]

I'll stick with my western digital black drives even if they are slightly slower in certain synthetic benchmarks. Why? Entirely due to them having the lowest failure rate of current drives on the market. Due to a recent court case, Seagate admitted their failure rate is roughly 1% annualized (compound that by a number of years). And judging by reveiws posted by users on various online stores, the Samsung drives are probably even higher.

I have personally replaced 5x as many Samsung drives and 10x Toshiba drives as any other brand. Very very rarely do I have to replace WD drives in my customers systems.

And when you guys consider the massive amount of important data people store on hard drives these days... I'd rather pay more money and have a little less speed in order to reduce the chances of a drive failure and subsequent loss of all it's data.

God thats laughable, considering my experience is the exact opposite. Except a green drive I picked up last year (which still runs a tad hotter than Samsung drives).. all my WD drive went dead by chirp of death. Where as I've had no problems whatsoever with Samsungs spinpoint series drives. And its not a little faster, Samsung F1-F3s have consistently walloped WDs non raptor offerings for the last 3 years. FYI samsungs have the lowest failure rate, most people who own WDs drives are like those who owned maxtors, not bothered enough to report a failure. OEM samsungs from 10-5 years ago were pretty ty, but I honestly have no reservations stating their drives hands down the best now.