> Historically the simple trick to finding reliable drives is to look
> for those with a 5 year warranty.  It was fairly easy to find
> consumer-grade drives with 5-year warranties as recently as a few
> years ago.  I had very good results with the Seagate Barracudas for
> many years, but as soon as they went from five to three year
> warranties I switched to WD -- and in retrospect I am very glad I did.
>
> I built a rather large server not too long before the flood so I have
> been out of touch with the market, but with HD prices finally coming
> down I have been looking again.   It seems as if the only consumer
> grade drives with 5-year warranties any more are the WD Black series
> and these are practically as expensive as enterprise grade drives.
> All the rest have only two or three year warranties.
>
There is a reason WD Black drives are so expensive. They last.

--Bob A
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