Is Seagate Barracuda really that bad?

[vipirius]

So it has come to be that time when my ever expanding anime archive has become too big to be contained. (Damn Bluray rips are huge). So, I need an upgrade. I've been eyeing the 2TB Seagate Barracuda and also the 2TB WB Green for about 15$ more where I live. The thing is, the Seagate drives seem to have a bad reputation of dying. I currently have a 1TB Seagate Barracuda in my rig running fine for more than a year now. My other drive is a 1TB WD Green, which I've had since I bought a WD external drive about 4 years ago. I've since removed it from it's enclosure and it's been running fine in my PC for over a year. So basically my question is whether getting the Seagate drive for slightly cheaper would be risky? What are the actual odds of the drive failing on me? Or should I spend slightly more on the WD Green that I have personal experience with it lasting 4+ years. Also how do they compare speed and noise wise? Speed isn't that important as it will be a storage drive, but noise is important as I tend to keep my PC on at night. Thanks

[ZetZet]

Didn't even read your post. No it's not bad at all.

[Sadistic_Potato]

I have no idea where you heard that. They're fantastic HDD's. 

[Sauron]

No, seagate drives aren't bad. You are pretty safe getting it.

 

By the way

 

Damn Bluray rips are huge

 

You can solve this by converting the rips into mp4/mkv with format factory. The compression at high presets is nearly lossless and you can halve the size or even more usually.

 

Remember to follow your posts

[DigitalHermit]

@vipirius

 

We have the same dilemma... But I'm looking for a 2TB (or 3TB) internal drive (to migrate data from my 320GB and my 1TB archives) instead..

 

As for barracuda drives, they aren't so bad at all... Most mechanical drives have limited lifespans anyway (especially if you're using them as boot drives)...

 

If you're using Blackblaze's data, it can't be deemed as good data since the sample distributions are off...

[flibberdipper]

They're fantastic. Hell, (before I lost it) I had an old IDE 7200.7 80GB still running fine and it had lots of hours clocked on it.

[ANUPLUCIFERGAMER]

I've never got any complaint for them. They're good. But I think WDs better while comparing

[vipirius]

Thanks for the info. It's just that all the comments on Newegg saying the drive died after 1-2 years was scaring me off.

[Enderman]

Seagate is great. Don't get WD green, they are painfully slow. They are meant for long term storage that you only access once a year and then forget about.

[alpenwasser]

Thanks for the info. It's just that all the comments on Newegg saying the drive died after 1-2 years was scaring me off.

Any drive will eventually fail, no matter what. But since dissatisfied

customers are far more likely to report their expiences on sites like

Newegg, NCIX and so on, those reviews will always be skewed towards the

negative. Considering how many millions of drives are shipped each year,

of course there will be quite a few failures.

I recommend having a look a this thread, it contains RMA numbers from

a French retailer, the Seagates do just fine it seems.

[Th3 Mans1ay3r]

I have a Seagate but it's only a month or two old and I've gotten no issues from it after I formatted it.

[vipirius]

Any drive will eventually fail, no matter what. But since dissatisfied

customers are far more likely to report their expiences on sites like

Newegg, NCIX and so on, those reviews will always be skewed towards the

negative. Considering how many millions of drives are shipped each year,

of course there will be quite a few failures.

I recommend having a look a this thread, it contains RMA numbers from

a French retailer, the Seagates do just fine it seems.

Hmm, thanks for the info. According to the data on that post, Seagate seems to be ahead of WD generally, but for 2TB drives WD Green is slightly better than Seagate Barracuda. Still, I don't think it's worth spending more on a slower drive because of such a small difference.

[Wingfan]

They're fantastic. Hell, (before I lost it) I had an old IDE 7200.7 80GB still running fine and it had lots of hours clocked on it.

lol i have a 40GB IDE barracuda, it worked when i replaced it. never had any problems with Baracudas

[flibberdipper]

lol i have a 40GB IDE barracuda, it worked when i replaced it. never had any problems with Baracudas

I used to have a 40GB ATA IV before it got too many bad sectors and failed.

[Wingfan]

Ive never had a hard drive fail *crossing fingers*

[Riddler356]

So it has come to be that time when my ever expanding anime archive has become too big to be contained. (Damn Bluray rips are huge). So, I need an upgrade. I've been eyeing the 2TB Seagate Barracuda and also the 2TB WB Green for about 15$ more where I live. The thing is, the Seagate drives seem to have a bad reputation of dying. I currently have a 1TB Seagate Barracuda in my rig running fine for more than a year now. My other drive is a 1TB WD Green, which I've had since I bought a WD external drive about 4 years ago. I've since removed it from it's enclosure and it's been running fine in my PC for over a year. So basically my question is whether getting the Seagate drive for slightly cheaper would be risky? What are the actual odds of the drive failing on me? Or should I spend slightly more on the WD Green that I have personal experience with it lasting 4+ years. Also how do they compare speed and noise wise? Speed isn't that important as it will be a storage drive, but noise is important as I tend to keep my PC on at night. Thanks

I know you already have an answer, but from personal eperience, my best drives, other than Hitachi (back during IDE times) were segate, and a few years ago my segate 3tb drive failed for no reason, but now its had absolutely no problems. just sharing my experience with them.

[Whiskers]

Seagate is great. Don't get WD green, they are painfully slow. They are meant for long term storage that you only access once a year and then forget about.

 

I have used a 3TB Green drive for a few years now and have not noticed

this issue. It's also used as my primary storage drive - I store and load

each of my games on Steam from it in addition to video content, my music

collection and image libraries.

 

It's not exactly a speedy drive, but then again it's not really intended to

be.

[vipirius]

I have used a 3TB Green drive for a few years now and have not noticed

this issue. It's also used as my primary storage drive - I store and load

each of my games on Steam from it in addition to video content, my music

collection and image libraries.

 

It's not exactly a speedy drive, but then again it's not really intended to

be.

Well I have a 1TB Green and I can definitely tell it loads slower than my 1TB Barracuda. I have almost the same amount of anime on each drive and opening the folder on the WD drive takes a good 1-2 seconds longer than the Seagate drive. Not that it's a big deal or anything, but it's noticeable.