Originally posted by: Spike
I'm not sure how typical my experience is but my 1.5 month old 500gb 7200.10 failed and is in the RMA process. At the same time when it worked it was noiser than my 7200.9 drives as well as hotter. Personally I would go for the 7200.9 drive if you have a choice, but my experience has been tainted by what probably is just a lemon.
Originally posted by: Spike
I'm not sure how typical my experience is but my 1.5 month old 500gb 7200.10 failed and is in the RMA process. At the same time when it worked it was noiser than my 7200.9 drives as well as hotter. Personally I would go for the 7200.9 drive if you have a choice, but my experience has been tainted by what probably is just a lemon.
Originally posted by: Maluno
Originally posted by: Spike
I'm not sure how typical my experience is but my 1.5 month old 500gb 7200.10 failed and is in the RMA process. At the same time when it worked it was noiser than my 7200.9 drives as well as hotter. Personally I would go for the 7200.9 drive if you have a choice, but my experience has been tainted by what probably is just a lemon.
Yes, do remember that it is almost impossible to judge the reliability of a hard drive just from the anecdotal evidence of other users, because without a sample size of 1000+ drives, there is absolutely no valid way to make any accurate generalizations about a particular model or series of drives, (or any product for that matter, (except for special cases, where the same specific component repeatedly fails for many consumers, such as the Bose Triport's infamous headband, or the headphone jacks on the cursed old-generation creative labs Zen DAPs)).
I would generally say, (again, this is with no actual scientific data, or any intimate knowledge of the construction of any of the SG 7200 series), that the newer models should be better than their predecessors. The question, then, is "how much better?" Honestly, I don't think it will make a bit of difference if you were to choose the older drive over the new one, since they both have the same feature sets.
Spike does make a point, however, that he noticed the drive noise to be significantly greater on the newer series drive.
Take what you read with a grain of salt, including my own posts.
Originally posted by: Maluno
Yes, do remember that it is almost impossible to judge the reliability of a hard drive just from the anecdotal evidence of other users, because without a sample size of 1000+ drives, there is absolutely no valid way to make any accurate generalizations about a particular model or series of drives, (or any product for that matter, (except for special cases, where the same specific component repeatedly fails for many consumers, such as the Bose Triport's infamous headband, or the headphone jacks on the cursed old-generation creative labs Zen DAPs)).
Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
This is why super HUGE drives are always a risk. I would rather own a few smaller drives. If you fill 500 gigs and haven't backed it up then you could really get yourself in some trouble.