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Seagate Barracuda a good HDD?

melias24
By melias24
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Hi, i was wondering is the segate barracuda 7200rpm HDD a good HDD?.... I've seen its for $50 and im having trouble for budget, but i saw the WD blue for $69, will i be fine with the Seagate, my current one has one but it sometimes make this high pitch noise, i think its just the writing noise, so is the Barracuda good enough, or should i just go with the WD?

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~Elias 

*SORRY IF THIS IS IN THE WRONG THREAD WASN'T SURE WHERE TO POST!*

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Barracuda is a very popular HDD

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I have 8 or so I think. None have failed yet!

(Except that one that took a really high drop over hard wood floor to the face)

that said look at reviews at different place. 

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I have had 1 1TB that lasted me a solid period of time (a year and a half) before I became concerned with the possibility of it failing.  They are warrantied well (3 years) and at the cost it is very easy to get another to back up data at some point in the future when budget isnt such a constraint.

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I've got 4x 3TB barracudas and they're quieter than my 1x 1TB Blue, they're pretty much always on and I've had no issues with them.

I've had 1 Barracuda be DOA but I got a replacement within 24 Hours.

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Barracudas kick the ass out of most WD drives minus the Blacks... They're just a budget oriented thing that scares people off... look at this forum there's sooo many AMD 8320 vs Intel Core i5 4690k threads and it's like of course the i5 4690k is better these are not competing products xD ones  $100 more and based on an entirely different architecture and philosophy... or AMD Radeon 290x vs Nvidia Geforce GTX Titan Black(and/or 780Ti) and it's like guys the 290x is like half the price(of titan black) what do you expect the saddest part is in some games it still matches it, in others it's still ~90% of the performance... Value things have to be looked at from a slightly different perspective...  Just because it's not top of the market doesn't mean it's not awesome! Barracudas are awesome drives and for the money are hard to beat. 

*note better section would've been storage solutions*

5820k4Ghz/16GB(4x4)DDR4/MSI X99 SLI+/Corsair H105/R9 Fury X/Corsair RM1000i/128GB SM951/512GB 850Evo/1+2TB Seagate Barracudas

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