RE: [ukha_d] Tosh 1Tb Ext Drive - £70 - But what drive is it ?

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like the F1 drives are to be avoided then... which is odd as
I've ha=
d Samsung drives before and found them to be *very* good.=20

I like the sound of the green ones though, one of the reasons I'm looking
t=
o upgrade is cut my leccy bills a bit by running fewer, larger drives.
(Med=
ia server currently has 7 disks in it!)

Paul G.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Mal Lansell
> Sent: 01 December 2008 21:45
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Tosh 1Tb Ext Drive - =A370 - But what drive is
it ?
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> I've had trouble with Samsung 500Gb drives too.
>=20
> One thing to look out for with the WD greenpower drives is that you
can
> often get the 5 year warranty ones for almost the same price as the
the
> 3 year drives - worth a little extra, IMO (there must be a reason why
> they think they'll last another two years!)
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Phil Harris wrote:
> >
> > I've tried a lot of 1Tb (and bigger) drives and the rumour is
that the
> > Samsung F1 drives aren't quite as reliable as they might be but I
do
> > have a
> > couple of them ... I use the Western Digital
"Greenpower" 5400 rpm ones
> > mainly though (the WD-10EACS) as they run nice and cool.
> >
> > Phil
> >

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