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

[zanzabar]

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.

samsung didnt always use thier own fab so the old ones are the same as the old hitatchi/ibm, and the newer ones from the 501j/f1 and newer, the main problems are that samsung was one of the 1st to go to 32MB of cashe and they looked DOA on bad bioses and there are a seemingly large amount that have physical damage that ive seen from newegg but they now ship in a foam sleeve and not just the plastic.

the only one that i dont trust anymore is seagate

on topic
is this even an impovment other than it should only come in 500GB platters with the sata6 drives