WESTERN DIGITAL RE2

Conclusion

The Western Digital RE2 is a great drive to use in 24/7, high-density, or enterprise server environments.  It has awesome MTBF and reliability figures, making it ideal for situations where robustness, uptime, and data integrity are of higher importance than throughput.  And at a street price of about $171 online for the 500GB model, its a splendid deal - about 34 cents per gig, and a 5 year warranty with a 100% duty cycle.

We do look forward to newer versions of the WD RE2 that should bring much higher I/O performance, hopefully in the very near future. 

Performance...91%

Reliability...99%

Overall Value...95%