Here's pricing on 1 and 2 TB ... the 2 TB SSHDs are a steal
SSHD $80 / $95
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178381
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178380
WD Black $71 / $122
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236625
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236624
A lot of peeps seem to have heard that, this gal must have told them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOzAgpxg5wE
Actually there was this ridiculous backblaze study where some genius decided to put consumer drives in a server environment. In actuality, the very protection devices in consumer drives lead to premature failure in a server environment. Consumer drives have a feature called "head parking" which parks the heads when not in use. This way if someone bumps you desk, the heads don't crash your platters. Drives are rated for 250 - 500k cycles. In a server environment, this feature is useless, you can use up 50k cycles in a month. Cheap consumer drives without this feature can actually do quite well in server usage in this respect but, in home / office bump ya desk, and damaged drive.
Here's 2 years worth of HD return rates for drives that failed between 6 and 12 months of usage. 1st number is last 6 months, one in ( ) is previous 6 months
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/920-6/disques-durs.html
- Seagate 0,86% (contre 0,95%)
- Toshiba 1,02% (contre 1,54%)
- Hitachi 1,08% (contre 1,16%)
- Western 1,13% (contre 1,19%)
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/927-6/disques-durs.html
- Seagate 0,69% (contre 0,86%)
- Western 0,93 (contre 1,13%)
- HGST 1,01% (contre 1,08%)
- Toshiba 1,29% (contre 1,02%)
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/934-6/disques-durs.html
- Seagate 0,68% (contre 0,69%)
- Western 1,09% (contre 0,93%)
- HGST 1,16% (contre 1,01%)
- Toshiba 1,34% (contre 1,29%)
More importantly tho.... it's all about which drives are failing in big numbers, not the overall rate. Anything much above 2.5% should get you nervous. From same 3 periods. Moistly the 3 and 4 TB drives that aren't doing well
- 3,75% Toshiba DT01ACA300
- 3,08% WD RE WD4000FYYZ
- 2,64% WD Green WD20EARX
- 2,54% WD Black WD4001FAEX
- 4,76% WD Black WD4001FAEX
- 4,24% WD Black WD3001FAEX
- 3,83% WD SE WD3000F9YZ
- 2,56% HGST Travelstar 7K1000
- 4,58% WD Red WD60EFRX
- 3,40% Toshiba 3 To DT01ACA300
- 2,93% WD Green 4 To WD40EZRX
- 2,78% WD SE 3 To WD3000F9YZ