Originally Posted by
sammorris
In the Terabyte and beyond sector, I think WD has it pretty much sorted. They haven't had big reliability issues like Seagate (7200.12 firmware) and Samsung (1TB drive control boards), are relatively inexpensive (I believe Tekheads currently have the best deal on Greenpowers with the faster WD10EADS at £76.99), and in the case of the Green drives, are amazingly quiet. The WD1001FALS is mediocre for noise, but very fast, and obviously, there's also the £240 WD20EADS if you really need 2TB per drive bay.
As someone who's so far (touching wood) only had a drive go down due to a fault with other hardware (a Wd2000JB killed by a ghastly Qtec PSU, and a WD5000AAKS and an SP2504C killed by a faulty Molex splitter that was supplied with a Hiper Type-R) I don't really believe in paying extortionate amounts for the 'enterprise grade' drives. In my mind a truly enterprise grade solution is to get the drives in redundant RAID (i.e. anything other than RAID 0).