Question: In this video (from this page .. a little dated but still relevant)
At around 1:40 Steve says
I think that the manufacturers could make a perfect drive for $1000. ?But they couldn’t sell any for $1000. ?So they’re always trying to cram as many bits as they possibly can – competing with each other – and so they’re like on the edge of reliability – they’re reliable enough. ?If they fail, WD will send you a new one..
my question is, has anyone found or experienced a high quality drive like this? ?Or does it not exist at all? ?Sometimes people talk about “commodity hardware” ?but I don’t really see any “non-commodity” hard disks.
Answer: yes – kind of. they are called raid-1 with hot-spare setups with:
- monitoring of raid state and working alerting system
- surface scan scheduled every couple days
remember that super-hard disk will not protect you against fire / robery etc. so just back up…
i had failed wd raptors [ which are quite decent disks by the way ] after few weeks of use, i had failed 15k rpm sas server drives, i have still working 6GB ide drives.