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I wonder how the pricing works out. I look at the failure rates and my general take away is "buy Western Digital" for my qty 1 purchases. But if you look withi
by gangstead 2y ago
I wonder how the pricing works out. I look at the failure rates and my general take away is "buy Western Digital" for my qty 1 purchases. But if you look within a category, say 14TB drives, they've purchased 4 times as many Toshiba drives as WD. Are the vendors pricing these such that it's worth a slightly higher failure rate to get the $/TB down?
- mijamo 2y agoIf you are a large company owning hundreds of thousands of them and knowing you will have disk failures regardless, maybe. If you own just a few hundreds and a failure costs you money the logic may be completely different.
- Marsymars 2y agoI'd assume so. Also consider that if a drive fails under warranty, and you're already dealing with a bunch of failing drives on a regular basis, the marginal cost to get a warranty replacement is close to zero.