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WD Blue vs Black: Reliability?
megido-rev.M:
Interesting. What would be a suitable external enclosure for the RE4?
Dhruv:
i have a Freeagent GoFlex Desk 2TB External HDD
how good is that?
Sakura90:
--- Quote from: datora on June 17, 2012, 03:06:22 AM ---<BEGIN> TOPIC: WD Blue vs Black: Reliability?
Answer: WD Black edition drives are clearly, if not vastly, superior to Blue edition drives.
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<BEGIN> OFF-TOPIC: is the extra cost of the WD Black worth it?
Answer: It's a personal decision.
OFF-TOPIC: Are there other drives available that compete with the WD Black in it's performance/reliability class?
Answer: All major factors considered: No.
<END> OFF-TOPIC
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Lol, nice discussion here. Those were the answers I was looking more or less, but it was a fun ride reading all this :P
In the end, I'm offering it for sale for a good price. I already have 4x2TB and I was thinking of keeping a 500GB drive for moving data here or there. But thinking it twice... 500GB is too much. I already have enough HDD space for backups... maybe for taking a movie or two to a friend's house, a dorama for the Japanese class xD or some music. But for that a large pendrive would be enough.
The idea was to swap the Black with my Seagate, and sell the Seagate. But I'm going to get much more selling the Black. I had several Seagates before and they were all perfect (included one that had firmware issues, don't remember the model, although I updated it very shortly after I got it). I can't say that with WD. My 2 last system drives (aside my current Seagate) were WD Blues, and both failed. The first had motor problems, it didn't spin up. It was sudden from a day to the next. Just out of the 3 year warranty. The next Blue collected tons of uncorrectable, pending and reallocated sectors, months after I got it.
Of 2 Greens, 1 (EADS model) popped up 8 reallocated sectors, little more than 2 years and half of using it (not hard, mainly backup drive). The other (2 years or so, EARS model) had been running flawlessly for now, and it has seen rough use and me carrying it around. Great drive, except that the Samsungs HD204UI (have 2) are noticeable faster. Not that I care much.
So I have a horrible experience with Blues and 1 and 1 with Greens (just got another after selling the one that came from RMA, it was 1.5TB EARS, I sold it and got a 2TB EARX). With Seagate just my current and a couple of 500GB drives from 2009, early 2010. All were fine and sold them fine. Never got any complains. I don't know why Seagate takes so much shit from everyone... let's see how long my current lasts :P
Here I don't have any choice most of the time. And if you want warranty, the only one that cares is WD, that has local RMA. It's WD Green for large drives or paying fortunes for a Seagate or Hitachi (if you can find one) and end with a 6 months warranty from the retailer only. Blacks are insane, that's why I said I'd get a nice sum for it :P
vuzedome:
--- Quote from: Dhruv on June 18, 2012, 03:20:02 AM ---i have a Freeagent GoFlex Desk 2TB External HDD
how good is that?
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Seems to be getting a lot of positive reviews on consumer targeted review sites, not the usual geeky tech hardware reviewers that have oodles of redundant benchmark tests that I assume most of us usually go to instead.
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: vuzedome on June 18, 2012, 05:00:06 AM ---
--- Quote from: Dhruv on June 18, 2012, 03:20:02 AM ---i have a Freeagent GoFlex Desk 2TB External HDD
how good is that?
--- End quote ---
Seems to be getting a lot of positive reviews on consumer targeted review sites, not the usual geeky tech hardware reviewers that have oodles of redundant benchmark tests that I assume most of us usually go to instead.
--- End quote ---
oh well maybe i'll buy a WD next time
which is the best one?
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