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So my Seagate drive is clicking and dying must be the poor failure rate. Now I'm looking for another drive at or over 1tb that spins at 7200rpm. I was going to go with a western digital blue but I saw Hitachi drives have a low failure rate should I go with them?

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Western Digital is my favorite, if you need 1TB, a WD Blue would be fine, but larger than that and you'd want to go for a WD Black. (The larger WD Blues (Over 1TB) are all 5400RPM I think)

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What poor failure rate? BacKblaze? If so, you should completely ignore their statistic as any measure of drive reliability.

 

No manufacturer makes the best drives, they're all good really (or at least decent), minus some exceptions in terms of specific models or series. If one were meaningfully worse than the others, they wouldn't be around still in such a competitive market. 

 

Seagate Barracuda or WD Blue (Caviar Blue if you really need the 7200RPM) are good choices. Hitachi Deskstar as well, though the previous two are much more common to come across on sales and such as they typically sell more. 

 

6 minutes ago, TheKDub said:

Western Digital is my favorite, if you need 1TB, a WD Blue would be fine, but larger than that and you'd want to go for a WD Black. (The larger WD Blues (Over 1TB) are all 5400RPM I think)

All WD Blue drives are 5400RPM now. Caviar Blue are the 7200RPM drives. Though some of the old WD Blue 7200RPM drives may still be around, they're not in production under just WD Blue anymore.

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5 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

What poor failure rate? BacKblaze? If so, you should completely ignore their statistic as any measure of drive reliability.

 

No manufacturer makes the best drives, they're all good really (or at least decent), minus some exceptions in terms of specific models or series. If one were meaningfully worse than the others, they wouldn't be around still in such a competitive market. 

 

Seagate Barracuda or WD Blue (Caviar Blue if you really need the 7200RPM) are good choices. Hitachi Deskstar as well, though the previous two are much more common to come across on sales and such as they typically sell more. 

 

All WD Blue drives are 5400RPM now. Caviar Blue are the 7200RPM drives. Though some of the old WD Blue 7200RPM drives may still be around, they're not in production under just WD Blue anymore.

Caviar is an old drive name. WD just does colors, and the only WD Blues in 7200RPM flavors are 1TB and lower with 5400RPM models littering them.

 

As to the OP's question, I've had stellar experiences with HGST drives and pretty good experiences with Seagate/Hitachi (both are about equal in my book).

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I prefer WD, HGST/Hitachi, and Seagate. Haven't had much luck with Toshiba drives, but they're also a good choice.

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I'll just echo what @ARikozuM said, but I'd personally only go with Enterprise Seagate drives.

That said, I don't believe in HDD storage for anything but mass storage so..

29 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

All WD Blue drives are 5400RPM now. Caviar Blue are the 7200RPM drives. Though some of the old WD Blue 7200RPM drives may still be around, they're not in production under just WD Blue anymore.

You have proof for that? They still list them on their website.

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2 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I'll just echo what @ARikozuM said, but I'd personally only go with Enterprise Seagate drives.

That said, I don't believe in HDD storage for anything but mass storage so..

You have proof for that? They still list them on their website.

 

30 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Caviar is an old drive name. WD just does colors, and the only WD Blues in 7200RPM flavors are 1TB and lower with 5400RPM models littering them.

 

As to the OP's question, I've had stellar experiences with HGST drives and pretty good experiences with Seagate/Hitachi (both are about equal in my book).

My bad on that one, WD's main site seems to ignore anything below 1TB and even the 1TB model on their site is only listed as 5400RPM. 

 

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Looking at the spec sheets though, there are some 7200RPM drives at 1TB and lower, though it looks like quite a lot of the 7200RPM drives being sold as "Blue" are actually "Caviar Blue". Like this one, for example, it's not listed in the Blue spec sheet but is in the Caviar Blue specs. There also seems to be some models that are carried over so are in both. 

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00461LT6S/?tag=pcpapi-20

 

http://products.wdc.com/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-701277.pdf

https://www.wdc.com/content/dam/wdc/website/downloadable_assets/eng/spec_data_sheet/2879-771436.pdf

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1 hour ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

 

My bad on that one, WD's main site seems to ignore anything below 1TB and even the 1TB model on their site is only listed as 5400RPM. 

 

 

 

 

Looking at the spec sheets though, there are some 7200RPM drives at 1TB and lower, though it looks like quite a lot of the 7200RPM drives being sold as "Blue" are actually "Caviar Blue". Like this one, for example, it's not listed in the Blue spec sheet but is in the Caviar Blue specs. There also seems to be some models that are carried over so are in both. 

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00461LT6S/?tag=pcpapi-20

 

http://products.wdc.com/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-701277.pdf

https://www.wdc.com/content/dam/wdc/website/downloadable_assets/eng/spec_data_sheet/2879-771436.pdf

Welcome to the land of WD where the word Caviar is just thrown in randomly to make shit sound fancy. :P

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2 hours ago, Wufflez said:

So my Seagate drive is clicking and dying must be the poor failure rate. Now I'm looking for another drive at or over 1tb that spins at 7200rpm. I was going to go with a western digital blue but I saw Hitachi drives have a low failure rate should I go with them?

Figure out what size you need. Go to <retailer of your choice> and search for 6Gb/sec 7200 RPM hard drives in that capacity (or 5400 RPM if it's a cheapo mass storage dump). Find the WD, Seagate, Toshiba or Hitachi with the longest warranty within your price range and buy it. Done.

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