It was the 7200.11 that got bugged and not the 7200.12.

Come on guys, that horse is dead. Just advice people to stay away from 7200.11 firmware.

You could try looking at Samsung. They have produced some hard disks that performs much better than WD or Seagates in certain capacities, for a while until WD and Seagate catches up.

If performance is important, you should check platter density. Hard disks with 500 GB per platter performs better than those with 333 GB per platter or 250 GB per platter.

Please allow me to help.

My first WD 1 TB green also failed on me a couple of months after I bought it and got back another unit of the same model after RMAing.

Are you feeling even more nervous now?

Luckily I had budgeted for two of the drives, because I had feared what would happened if one of them failed, so I hadn't lost anything to that incident. I'm actually pretty pleased with them so far.

This post has been edited by everling: Sep 11 2009, 05:51 PM