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Hard Drive Brand Debate

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theprophet:
Ok I feel kinda stupid I don't understand what RAID is let alone the different levels of the raid is. Also what SMART functions are you talking about? Sorry I have fallen behind on computer technology I guess. I'm just used to throwing IDE drives in the computer and calling it a day.

lapa321:
I just walk around the mall, see what's available, and get the cheapest one.

Speed isn't too much of an issue since i keep the system files and the game files on different harddrives so i don't have all the programs crowding on a single drivehead.

Reliability isn't an issue either coz i keep my files on multiple harddrives and i go through almost a 50pack of DVD's a month backing up everything. It's only a precaution tho, i haven't had a harddrive crash on me so far. I change them when the prices of the larger capacity ones go down and sell the old one so i usually get rid of them before they run through their lifespan.

Size is not an issue. I'm not like those guys that has their anime permanently taking up drive space (When one drive is full, they buy a new one. WTF?!). I burn them as soon as there's enough to fill 10 DVD's and just look them up when i want to watch one. I actually made a tracking software in VB that tracks the contents of about 1,500 DVDs (The MDB is backed up too and stored on two different PC's. God help me if i lose that!).

All that said, i usually end up with a Seagate.

kureshii:
Currently my preference is with WD, mainly for price and warranty reasons (they're cheaper and have 5 years warranty here, vs 3 years for Seagate.) Mainly amassing WD Greens for huge amounts of storage. Drive speed isn't an issue because they're all going into an NAS which feeds the home network at gigabit speed only, anyway.

After a couple of months with an SSD (Intel X25-M G2) I think I'm going to find it hard to go back to mechanical drives for the OS partition...



Ignore the specified boot time of 30:12 (bootchart oddly doesn't display it as 00:12 and I don't know why), the chart clearly shows it as 12 seconds. That's after POST, up to login screen, and without any boot optimisations (yet).

For those who aren't gamers and won't need 80GB of space on the system partition, the Intel X25-V, OCZ Vertex and Kingston SSDNow V+ series are decent buys for SSDs 64GB and below. Of course, they won't be rubbing shoulders with the better SSDs, but you will definitely feel the difference compared to a mechanical hard disk. And all 3 come with TRIM support, too.

theprophet:

--- Quote from: kureshii on February 25, 2010, 01:03:16 PM ---Currently my preference is with WD, mainly for price and warranty reasons (they're cheaper and have 5 years warranty here, vs 3 years for Seagate.) Mainly amassing WD Greens for huge amounts of storage. Drive speed isn't an issue because they're all going intoto an NAS which feeds the home network at gigabit speed only, anyway.

--- End quote ---

Actually the WD green drives on Newegg only come with a 3 year warranty I don't know why they would lower the warranty unless they don't think the product will last as long as the other drives?

kureshii:
I have no idea either. I don't buy from Newegg since they don't ship outside of US or Canada, but I'd guess warranty periods probably vary from region to region for reasons I don't really know.

In any case, it's always safe to assume the drive will eventually fail. Plan for backups as necessary. A longer warranty period will ensure you get free replacement drives in case of early drive failure. As long as you don't get lemon after lemon, that's always a good thing.

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