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Hard Drive Brand Debate
Deucal:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/
check up on their HDD reviews. Very thorough.
Brand isn't everything, almost never is. It is the individual components you have to compare.
kyanwan:
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--- Quote from: Lupin on February 25, 2010, 02:11:23 AM ---I too used to purchase Seagate (never had a failed drive from them) but ever since they released those faulty firmwares for their 1 - 1.5 TB drives, I've become wart of buying their drives.
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Ah, see, my largest drives so far are my 750 GB Greens, and my largest Seagates are 320s. I give them a few years to get their firmware figured out before buying things.
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Yer never buy the largest sized HDD on the market, I know someone who lost 1.4tb of data cause they bought the 1.5tb hdd as soon as they came out.
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Heh - always avoid bleeding-edge tech like the plague. It's never the best.
I stick with previous generation, stable tech. It's usually tried, tested - and kicks ass - not to mention, half price.
Then if you want 2 tb - get 2 1tb drives.
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For drives - I swear by Seagate. I've had Seagates running - sounding like a motorcycle starting up - and I can pull the data off em before I toss em. They often outlive the warranty of 5 years - no prob.
More or less - I have grown out of my seagate drives before I tossed them.
Another drive I like - is the Ultrastar/Deskstar - aka - Hitachi. Good drives too. Fast, reliable. These things I retired before they died as well.
Only brands I've had problems with - old Maxtor , and WDC.
WD - I avoid mostly ... but I do run a couple. Luckily - they're not bad.
I would say that 90% of the drives I have - are Seagate.
( We're talking about 20-25 HDs I have running here. I'm not even sure how many - I got some partitioned. XD )
teainapot:
The only brand I've had experience with is WD, and I'm very pleased. I first got a 320GB a few years ago, and that thing still works fine after taking a tumble to a hardwood floor. I've also had a 1TB (the larger series) for over a year and it's been fine. I recently got a 'portable' 1TB (from the Essentials SE line) and through some Very Bad Luck it slipped from my loving grip onto a hardwood floor and then was covered in milk.
Yeah...it still works as great as when I pulled it out of the box. The only problem with the portable 1TB is that the cable is very sensitive. You lightly nudge it on accident and this sometimes causes it to disconnect (usually it reconnects shortly afterward, but this can be a problem if you've got torrent files linked to your main PC as I do.)
boxer4:
I've had all sorts of brands of hard drives and giving my 2 cents:
They all are about the same. Had all brands fail on me at one time or another, best you can hope for is to keep backups (_and_ RAID if you don't want downtime if it dies mid-flight).
kureshii:
Hard drives mainly differ in performance, noise and other immediately observable metrics. In terms of failure rate, there may be slight differences between them, but I wouldn't trust any of them to last 7 years. Not to say that can't happen, but I'm not going to keep any important data on a single drive and trust it will keep working for 7 years without failing.
With a RAID (with redundancy, i.e. not RAID 0), the main thing I look out for is warranty period. For cheaper, slower storage, I just buy the cheapest drive with the longest warranty, after checking for other factors like temperature and noise.
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