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Western Digital or Seagate
Dhruv:
I'd rather take it with an entire system or a NAS unit. :)
kamuixtv99:
--- Quote from: limefc on August 20, 2012, 05:10:08 AM ---Basically read heads are held above the surface of HDD platters by the airflow generated by rotation, parking lands the read heads off the platter(s). The action of moving them back over the platters from parked state can cause potential damage and head crash.
It's very similar to turning the HDD on and off a lot. That also causes reliability issues.
A HDD is most reliable when it is working 24/7 365 days a year with 0 downtime at a constant temperature between 35 to 40 degrees.
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I got a newly replaced seagate drive in march 2011, I'm using it on my torrenting PC. My routine is like this I turn it on at 6am then turn it off at 2pm then on again at 7 or 8pm then turn it off at 10pm. Would that be ok? It has an auxilliary fan beside of it, it got 6 bad sectors last May. I used HDD regen and I lost 20GB of the newly regenerated partition. I blame the economy for the result of poor quality products it wasn't like this 6-8 years ago. Before a drive would last at least 5 to 10 years or you let it retire because it's obsolete.
There was a thread that most of you store your anime on hdds and not optical discs (T. Yuden brand). I would like to try it. WD Elements are ok now? Years ago, I heard a lot of horror stories about it. Should I have a separate drive for torrenting and storage?
I guess the obvious answer is yes, Because my rarely use htpc has a seagate drive and still ok after 4 years. Some new drives fail after 4 to 6months and I don't like that, imagine if you lost 1TB of data.
megido-rev.M:
Shit, man. May I suggest you read this thread.
Also, random blurbs:
Horror stories for Elements? I never heard those.
lol seagate
<0.5yr failure o.O I say you should change your retailer
kamuixtv99:
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on September 15, 2012, 01:50:42 AM ---Shit, man. May I suggest you read this thread.
Also, random blurbs:
Horror stories for Elements? I never heard those.
lol seagate
<0.5yr failure o.O I say you should change your retailer
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Ok. You see I got questions on my post. I prefer 2.5 hdds than Elements (it requires power), no passports either. Give me a hint, who is winning here Seagate/Samsung or WD?
Dhruv:
Go for western digital. And Elements to be specific.
Edit: Or Buy a Caviar Black and put it in an external enclosure.
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