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Western Digital or Seagate
limefc:
2TB, 3TB drives sold between October 2011 and April 2012 had high return rates within 6 months of being sold. Ones that didn't have insanely high return rates were 2TB WD Greens and Samsung EcoGreens.
http://www.behardware.com/articles/862-6/components-returns-rates-6.html
Data is directly from a French etailer. Only high capacity drives, 1.5TB and more have abnormally high return rates.
According to that, Samsung is the most reliable with both Seagate and WD trailing it and from my experience with Samsung drives.. I can't disagree. Like 90% of the drives around my place are Samsung and they've been consistently good, although my server which is the only system in 24/7 use has Hitachi Deathstars and a single WD blue.
Back when I bought the Deathstars, Hitachi had an overall returns rate of only 0.92% for a #1 spot. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Dhruv:
Ohhh... that is a Deskstar.... i wonder why you people call it a Deathstar :P
Looks like no drive is reliable and durable enough.... But i don't see WD Black name on the list.
And As far as WD Elements Goes... tatsujin has had an extremely good experience with it.... he has 4 or 6 of those drives and none has failed till now.
limefc:
2TB WD Black is on the list.
If you want to buy something under 1.5TB internal, buy something from WD, Seagate or Samsung and as long as you don't get really bad luck you'll get what you want. If it's bigger or equal to 1.5TB then go for Samsung.
There is no reason to prefer WD Blacks over Samsungs or Seagate XTs at 1TB level when the concern is reliability.
There is reason to prefer Samsung over anything at 1.5TB and higher capacities.
WD for externals is fine. WD elements is only up to 1TB anyway and that's not where the massive failers are (that's 2TB capacity drives).
Elements is most likely a WD Blue or WD Green by the way. My external has a WD Scorpio Blue in it, for instance. Blues and Greens in WD based externals are dime in a dozen and blues can last for a very long time.
Externals are nothing more than a SATA&SATA power->USB2 or USB3 (optionally with a power brick) adapters and a plastic/metal box to store that and a 2.5 or 3.5 inch internal SATA drive in.
Dhruv:
I am going by the name not the model number... That way I don't see Black written over there... But I take your word for it. :)
If you have read the first post of the thread I want to buy a disk with a capacity of 2TB or 3TB and as far as elements goes it comes upto 3TB in capacity... Till 1TB it is portable and after that it is a desktop drive. I am not aware of its constituent drive. Probably tatsujin can tell us that.
Looking at that link it seems that Seagate Barracuda is one of the worst drives.
limefc:
It's there - 2TB Caviar Black. Also the bigger externals are NOT WD Elements - elements is only up to 1TB. The ones you're talking about are - I believe, WD My Book Essentials and those contain in them a WD Green.
WD green is listed. 3TB model is in the over 5% return rate section and two models of the 2TB are in the 2TB section.
Anyway you'll get below average reliability at 2TB and above level even if you buy Samsung which is by far the best. So my point stands, get a Samsung. Or if you can't, stay the hell away from Seagate and Hitachi and go with a WD Green based external. Just don't ask for solid reliability, that's asking for the impossible.
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