HDD

[Bushie]

Who is producing reasonable HDD today ?
I have another Seagate drive (1Tb) failing so looking to replace but what with ?


Martyn

[Pedro_The_Swift]

I buy all WD black caviars purely for their 5 year warranty.

[d@rk51d3]

Who is producing reasonable HDD today ?
I have another Seagate drive (1Tb) failing so looking to replace but what with ?


Martyn

I had the same issue a while back.
Bought a new PC, and specced a Seagate as they had a great reputation ( or so I thought ).

Lasted about 6 months. While it was away under warranty, I found out about some of their issues, so went with a WD black caviar as a replacement with the intention of demoting the Seagate to a secondary. 2 weeks later the caviar died........

Lucky dip either way IME.

That said, I'd probably go WD again.

[sheerluck]

....Lucky dip either way IME.....

In years gone by it was a little different when there was 8 or 9 manufacturers of HDDs, but now we're down to about 3 I think it is, they seem to be much of a muchness.

I would echo Pedro's point about going for maximum warranty.

[Bushie]

From memory this is the 3rd Seagate that has failed in the last 3 or 4 years. Makes me happy I do regular backups as this one has all my trip notes/photos etc on it.

Managed to back it all up last night and also have a separate backup from last month on another drive.


Martyn

[p38arover]

I just bought 2 WD Red drives for my NAS RAID. The Red drives are designed for 24 hr operation

[Eevo]

+1 for WD Red

[MacMan]

I buy all WD black caviars purely for their 5 year warranty.

All drives will have warranty, and none should be trusted as far as you could throw them. I had a WD black last 12 days, total running time would have been less than one full day.

Had two Seagate 7200.11s RMA'd due to the firmware issue, one bricked.

They're all as bad as each other. If you're looking to buy one for storage, you SHOULD be looking at 2 so you aren't entrusting data to a single drive only.

[incisor]

don't know where you lot are buying all these crap drives but i rarely see one back that i have sold.

probably seen 20 dead seagates in the last 12 years and 10 western digitals out of the ones i have sold, which would be hundreds.

i get all mine from tier one distributors.

there has been a definite drop off in quality since the floods in thailand it has to be said.

havent seen anything as bad as the run of ibm death-stars a few years back before they sold out to hitachi.

that was a shocker and caused immense grief.

[Landy Smurf]

i had a basic wd 3tb and it stopped working after 6 months and we had so much on there.
It had 3 years warranty i think so we got a new one and just being very careful with it now.It is mainly for backing things up and putting movies on it.

[p38arover]

don't know where you lot are buying all these crap drives but i rarely see one back that i have sold.

probably seen 20 dead seagates in the last 12 years and 10 western digitals out of the ones i have sold, which would be hundreds.


My HDD that recently failed came from a computer shop in Morayfield in Qld.

[incisor]

My HDD that recently failed came from a computer shop in Morayfield in Qld.

how old was it?

[BigBlueOne]

At the moment i have a 2tb WD caviar black and a 1tb WD caviar black aswell as an SSD. I havn't had any problems with either of these drives however i have previously bought a 1tb WD caviar black and it died after about 2 weeks. I have owned samsung hdd's before also and never had a problem. In fact i think my brother in law is still using one of them which is about 10 years old

[p38arover]

how old was it?

Jeez, Dave, now you're asking. :o


Over 5 years I'd expect. It's been in three (possibly four) computers that I can think of. :D

[Dizza]

Edit: accidentally posted :p

[to76]

+1 black series

I always backup to 2 extra HDs, have recently started to upload important data to Google Drive.

[Bushie]

Ended up going with a 2Tb WD black, and I now have a replacement 1Tb from Seagate.

The backup I did the night before it failed completely had some corrupt files on it so I've finished (I think) copying my photos over from the previous months backup. All in all I'm fairly happy having lost nothing (or at least minimal files)



Martyn