When you think of HDD’s, what comes in mind (quality wise)
January 26th, 2020
Your talking about High Definition Disks ??
Or.. Hard Disk Drives ??
I have mostly used Seagates and Western Digitals. Never had a failure on my drives. Seagates from a certain year’s models a few years back were a bit unreliable, but they all got replaced by warranty so no harm was done.
Western Digitals would be the best choice. I have been using them for years, never really anything broke. Very reliable, and very good looking!
Currently I have two of 2tb, 1 of 1TB, and few small ones 250gb~500gb
ive had both western digital and seagate for internal 3.5 hdd, i think you can get better warranty
with wd right now. never had an issue with wd or seagate, have came across issues with toshiba more than once.
ive had a WB for 5 years now no problem… and another one for about 3 years no problem..
Well, Reliability wise, no HDD is 100% reliable regardless to it’s brand. But I personally had the worst experience with WD ones, So I wouldn’t recommend em. There are generally 3 HDD brands these days (WD, Seagate, Toshiba)
There are a lot more brands on the External HDDs market, But those only manufacture the enclosure and not the HDD itself. Anyways, If I were you, I’d go with a Seagate one. It’s true that you can get a 5yr warranty with a WD Black HDD (vs 2 with a Seagate) but if you ask me, It’s not worth it! If you look at the acoustics specifications of each HDD, You’d notice that WD Black ones are considerably noisier than Seagate ones (And just for the record, WD lists the noise level in decibels, While Seagate in bels, To convert bels to decibels, You just remove the dot in-between, So for example 2.7 bel would equal to 27 decibels) Noise wise, Seagates are much quieter. They’re also more cost effective (WD Black’s are typically 30-35% more expensive than Seagate ones!) So it’s up to you which trade you wanna make. Anyways, Whatever you end up buying, I’m gonna give you two very valuable tips:
1. Never presume that just because it’s new, It’s in good condition (As that is not always the case!)
Always get it properly checked with a SMART monitoring app or the brand’s own tool.
2. If you value your data, Maintain regular backup onto an External HDD (+Online too as an additional measure, If you can afford it and got a solid upload speed) This doesn’t have to be overly complicated, As there are plenty of apps to automate it.
Western Digital
Seagate
First thing that comes to mind (for me) is Western Digital
First thing that comes to mind (for me) is Western Digitalthis.
First thing that comes to mind is RAID. No drive is immune to failure.
For data security, use raid1. Or if you need performance and can spare the bucks, use raid10.
Or RAID 6 with HP P400/410/420 controller
For data security, use raid1.Redundancy & Backup are two different things!
If you accidentally delete a file and overwrite it, Or have your PC infected with a virus that causes file corruption (Or even ransomware) then RAID1 is not gonna save you! (The same changes will automatically and immediately replicate themselves to the other HDD) but in contrast to that, If you backup your data to an external HDD/Cloud on occasions, The backup will NOT be compromised (At least as long as you keep your external HDD disconnected when it’s not needed & Modify the cloud backup schedule when you notice something happened) So overall, RAID1 is not very useful for backup, It’s much more useful for redundancy in server use.
Im a victim of marketing as well, Western Digital.
For data security, use raid1.
Redundancy & Backup are two different things!
If you accidentally delete a file and overwrite it, Or have your PC infected with a virus that causes file corruption (Or even ransomware) then RAID1 is not gonna save you! (The same changes will automatically and immediately replicate themselves to the other HDD) but in contrast to that, If you backup your data to an external HDD/Cloud on occasions, The backup will NOT be compromised (At least as long as you keep your external HDD disconnected when it's not needed & Modify the cloud backup schedule when you notice something happened) So overall, RAID1 is not very useful for backup, It's much more useful for redundancy in server use.True for important data like family photos and data but for a multi-terabyte collection of you can download again it just isn’t cost effective to backup all of it.
True for important data like family photos and data but for a multi-terabyte collection of you can download again it just isn't cost effective to backup all of it.I’ll have to disagree with you on that one!
Even if you got a 100MBPS connection, Re-downloading large amounts of shows/games/movies would take you a very long time (Not to mention that finding all the links to em would be quite an effort!)
Besides, HDDs are pretty cheap nowadays.
Western digital make the best hard drives. Never had one fail on me.
Western Digital should be good…
Buffalo or seagate I’d say
i had a Western Digital Raptor back in the day, spent soo much money on it.. the thing only lasted a month, So i steer clear of Western Digital stuff now, So im stuck with using Seagate