Picking a Western Digital SATA Drive
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Wrote this recently and thought it would be good to link as it is always good to have a handy guide like this around:
http://www.infostor.com/nas/choosing-a-sata-drive-three-factors-to-consider-1.html
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Figured warranty and/or RVS (Rotation Vibration Safeguard) would have been mentioned, as well.
Consider warranty to be an OEM's confidence in their device. Bit on RVS, http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/bad-bad-bad-vibrations/896
Cost math on price can be interesting. As an example, a device getting twice the value out of a set of Red drives vs RE drives. SMBs would be more of the mindset to take the lowest price (yeah, yeah, not enterprise).
