-=> Mark Hofmann wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 MH> Typically, I buy Crucial or Samsung SSD drives.  I've never had issues
 MH> with either, and do know that most enterprise systems use Samsung SSDs.

I learned my lesson the hard way (plus I had better start backing stuff up
too!).

 MH> On the spinner front, HGST is the best.  They are now Western Digital
 MH> Gold or Western Digital Ultrastar Enterprise drives.  I only buy the
 MH> Ultrastar Enterprise drives for large arrays for home.

HGST used to be Tosbiba's HD arm, wasn't it?

 MH> The Ultrastar drives have a 5 year warranty, which is fantastic.  I had
 MH> bought several used Ultrastar drives on Ebay that were still in
 MH> warranty - and a few in the batch ended up being bad with bad sectors
 MH> or failing tests (I think they were damaged somehow). Either way,
 MH> Western Digital replaced them in warranty with no issues.

That's nice to have that kind of warranty.  Amazon gave me no grief in
giving me a refund on that WD SSD.

-- Sean 
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