[Leaplist] Is this a good quality hard drive?

[Bruce Metcalf]

ray wrote:
> http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=249&language=en 
> 
> Its the WD RE 250G sATA 3.0 Gb/sec 16M cache 7200 rpm drive with 1 
> million hour MTBF and 5yr limited warranty?

I hope it's a good one. I just bought two of the 320G capacity and 
installed them as a RAID1 pair. (Slightly better Gb/$ ratio on the 320 
from Newegg.)

This series has an online reputation for a high rate of DOA and early 
failure, but it's not clear how many were actually victims of bad power, 
voltage spikes, or mishandling on installation.

My two are fine so far, but it's just day 2.

Bruce