Anyone have any data or opinion on how the 8TBs stack up against each other - the WD Reds vs the HGST 8TBs. Googles has not turned up anything useful. Obviously there's a price difference when buying from Newegg. The 8TB Reds were just on sale for around $310. And i see HGSTs for reasonable prices on Ebay. This'd be for a home server to store an ever growing amount of video.
8TB WD Reds vs HGST Heliums?
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You would be as well asking what colour you like your living room painted 
My favourite "colour" is HGST. Rock solid performers imo. WD would agree with me I'm sure, they used the HE8's, rebadged/ labelled in their early released My Book's
My favourite "colour" is HGST. Rock solid performers imo. WD would agree with me I'm sure, they used the HE8's, rebadged/ labelled in their early released My Book's
Sorry, no I haven't purchased any of the Refurb deals for the 8TB Heliums, but I would say that providing you have something of a warranty from the seller, even if only 6 months etc, you should be fine. Most bad disks are weeded out really quickly in production, leaving only transit damage which should show up immediately or easily within a couple of weeks of receiving them, just test, test and test some more before putting them to use
+1, HGST has reported Helium models have increased reliability plus a little lower power consumption.
2.5M hours MTBF rating and 5-year limited warranty 8TB & 6TB Helium Hard Drive | Ultrastar He8 | HGST
WD Red 8TB is 1M hours MTBF http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-800002.pdf
2.5M hours MTBF rating and 5-year limited warranty 8TB & 6TB Helium Hard Drive | Ultrastar He8 | HGST
WD Red 8TB is 1M hours MTBF http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-800002.pdf
Handy rule of thumb: manufacturer's stated capacity * .91 ≈ formated capacity.
Code:
da1 at mps2 bus 0 scbus9 target 0 lun 0
da1: <HGST HUH728080AL4200 A515> Fixed Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
da1: Serial Number 2EGxxxxx
da1: 600.000MB/s transfers
da1: Command Queueing enabled
da1: 7630885MB (1953506646 4096 byte sectors)I like the HGST drives, because they come in a far greater variety than the WD drives. I'm using SAS 4K native w/ ISE, for example.