3rd WD5000AAKS dead within 2 years.

[lewekleonek]

I could've sworn by WD drives until I bough a pair of WD5000AAKS for my RAID-1 storage combo 2 years ago. I have actually then switched to 2 separate storage drives with rsync mirroring script running every night. It was an awesome idea to keep some redundancy cause the drives started dying one after another.
I have a 3rd one of the infamous WD5000AAKSs going south now as we speak This is a replacement sent to me by WD. So in total the two originally purchased ones are gone back to WD. The replacement for one of them is dying as we speak. I am currently running fsck as bad sectors started turning up. S.M.A.R.T test (the extened one) would not even complete within 12 hours.
So far noted: 200 Write Error Rate is at 82105, 197 Current Pending Sector Count is at: 1383

Which drives should I buy as a replacement for the WD5000AAKS crap. Is there anything more reliable nowaday. I'm talking about drives dying after few months of light use.

BTW: I use surge protected power bars and reliable power supplies with all my systems. Wtf is going on with hard disk industry anyway?

[BlackST]

you get what you pay for. When 'average joe' ask for more reliable drive, I have alternatives but they start yelling as they cost up to 30 percent more - I gave up. They prefer to spend on DR when it happens instead of investing on redundancy and quality.

[Alexii]

DR scene LOVES Tornado =)

[BlackST]

ROYL HAWK PINCLITE and co. too, to be honest...