Hi
I have carried out some searches and there seems to be a couple of ST2000DM001 drives - and the ones with more than one platter reported as less reliable maybe the China rather than Thailand ones? I am looking to replace my Seagate 1TB out of warranty unit with failed sectors and would be a good chance to upgrade too and this drive seems fast.
I would be going to Scan most probably so want to find out if they are shipping these from anyone's experience here? Obviously online doesn't allow for visual checks of the top with the larger dent in top rhs associated with the more reliable units.
On a slightly different note, if I were to run a Raid 1 with a pair of these on my current motherboard (old 870 AM3 mobo) would there be any problems reading the other drive as I also read sometimes it's hit and miss. I understand it's SB850 Southbridge provides support for up to six SATA 6 Gb/second drives with RAID 0, 1,5,10 supported and may be problematic but never used Raid before so want setting it up as easy as possible.