I’m desperately trying to find a solution to the HORRIBLE Seagate RMA’S that I’ve been experiencing over the last year or two… As a result, I bought six CAVIAR BLACKS for future RAID setups…
Recently, I spoke with a Couple of ‘System Builders’ and they told me that they have had a ‘Number of Issues’ with RAID LEVEL 0,1, 5, 10 using CAVIAR BLACKS!!. Has anyone experienced any ‘ISSUES’ with the BLACKS vs. the SEAGATE Drives.? I’m really only interested in RAID 0 and 1 and REALLY would like an alternative to SEAGATE.
There was a report over on Tom’s about some Russian company that recovers data and iirc Seagate had a higher than average failure rate. YMMV et cetera.
You need to know that Caviar Blacks are not RAID drives. So, if one of them goes into error recovery mode, for longer than 7 seconds, it will drop out of the RAID array. That’s what you are going to experience, sooner or later. However, if you are using a software RAID, then you may have better luck.
Yeah, I was told that it had to do with the ‘error correction’ feature of the Hard Drive, so you’re response seems to validate that… Having said that, what drives are people using for RAID 0, 1, 5 ?? Seagates??
I get that the Enterprise-level drives are what’s needed for a true RAID array for business-critical implementations, but it does seem odd that WD advertises all 3 Caviars as being not just suitable, but recommended, for Consumer RAID applications, if you’re only going to have “better luck”.
"Ideal For
Desktop / Consumer RAID Environments - WD Caviar Blue Hard Drives are tested and recommended for use in consumer-type RAID applications"
"Ideal For
Desktop / Consumer RAID Environments - WD Caviar Green Hard Drives are tested and recommended for use in consumer-type RAID applications"
"Ideal For
Desktop / Consumer RAID Environments - WD Caviar Black Hard Drives are tested and recommended for use in consumer-type RAID applications"
