>> Been there, wasted $$$, now I only buy one type of >> validated, extremely >> reliable enterprise-grade disk from Hitachi. :-) >> Seagate and Western >> Digital both have have serious Q/C problems recently with >> their drives, >> and WD especially makes drives that will fail or function >> very poorly in >> enterprise hardware, all in the interest of being >> "green". Ugh. > > Would you post a link to the model number you like? > > Thanks! :) > > Darrell Hitachi P/N 0F10311 (2TB 7200RPM). They are somewhat hard to find now, but I have never had one fail once it was in service. The only failure I had was a DOA drive, it failed as soon as it was plugged in, and it may have been dropped in shipment. Tim