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halfelite:

--- Quote from: rostheferret on July 17, 2012, 08:29:50 AM ---
Did you buy all/most of those drives at the same time? Every HDD manufacturer has good and bad batches...

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Most of the time No. Most I usually buy at a time is is 2 and 3 at the most, In the past I have bot boxes of 10 and such but usually stay away from that since I run raid now. Would hate to lose a whole batch.

Copperstone:
Do check out today's Times of India newspaper...they have given details of the knew Seagate Backup Plus HDDs. Starts at Rs. 7000

Dhruv:

--- Quote from: Copperstone on July 17, 2012, 05:30:58 PM ---Do check out today's Times of India newspaper...they have given details of the knew Seagate Backup Plus HDDs. Starts at Rs. 7000

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I think you are referring to this one
http://www.seagate.com/external-hard-drives/portable-hard-drives/standard/backup-plus/
It comes in max 1 TB.. not enough for me... i archive anime.. all of them

Grimpak:
it's a matter of opinion between both Seagate and WD to be very honest. WD was bleh a good few years back, but they started to come on top these last years. Seagate were pretty much bullet-proof, but then a batch of them a few years ago came with faulty firmwares that bricked the entire HDD for no apparent reason (physically, the plates were fine, it was the controller that went b0rked). This however, seems to be in the past and they seem to step up nowadays.

personal experience from WD which I have now is, I have a 1tb green drive and a 1tb black drive. both awesome and work quite well. The green one is working as storage while the black is the main one. it is of note, however, due to the design itself of the hdd, WD Caviar green drives aren't that great for portable, NAS of to be used as an OS drive. they have some weird power saving techniques (constant spin-down/up from 5400 to 7200 and back) that is time and load sensitive. It is, nevertheless a very performing green drive, and quite the saver on power.

WD caviar black drives are good drives. work well, and are fast for a mechanical drive. better than this only really either a seagate momentus XT (hybrid drive), a velociraptor with it's blistering 10k RPM's or a SSD.

Dhruv:
^Velociraptor is out of consideration because i need either a 2 TB or 3 TB plus it needs to be cost effective too
you can give me a link of the page of this Caviar green drive you mentioned so that i can take a look and decide
otherwise My Book Essentials can pretty much fulfill my requirements

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