Hitachi Seagate or Wester Digital

[Non Binary]

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[Radium_Angel]

2 minutes ago, Non Binary said:

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If you have a proper backup plan in place, then it doesn't matter which one you buy

[LukeSavenije]

hitachi=wd

1 minute ago, Mr. horse said:

Wester Digital Hitachi/Seagate drives tend to fail.

what else then? toshiba?

[Firewrath9]

1 minute ago, Mr. horse said:

Wester Digital Hitachi/Seagate drives tend to fail.

??

 

 

OP: I prefer seagate, but none are bad.

Get 7200RPM, and at least 2TB, as 1TB drives aren't that much of a discount

[brwainer]

2 hours ago, LukeSavenije said:

hitachi=wd

what else then? toshiba?

While they are owned by the same company and share some new technologies, Hitachi branded drives are still designed and manufactured separately from WD drives. For NAS I prefer Hitachi over WD, unless the budget allows for WD Red Pro.

 

I’ve started buying Toshiba drives, haven’t run into an issue with them yet. I also haven’t had any serious problem with Seagate.

 

Any drive can fail, and often without warning. None of the brands are extremely better than others, except possibly Hitachi (their records from Backblaze seem to be lower). Seagate gets a bad rep due to a particular model of 3TB drive that had a unusually high failure rate, but this was shortly after the Thailand flood (2013?) and its suspected that the two are related.

[Jarsky]

4 hours ago, Mr. horse said:

Wester Digital Hitachi/Seagate drives tend to fail.

 

This is such a subjective statement. 
Failure rates are not that high by brand, across the board. 

 

[Non Binary]

Ok here's the deal

Hitachi Travelstar Z5K500 (5200rpm) 3tb (used) for 45$

Comes with 1 month warranty,

Hitachi travelstar 7200rpm 2tb (used) for 43 dollar

No warranty,

Or

Wd green 2tb (new) for 43 dollar

1 year warranty

Or

seagate barracuda 2 tb (new) for 50$

1 year warranty

Smh

Oh and i already decided to buy samsung evo 850 

 

[brwainer]

26 minutes ago, Non Binary said:

Ok here's the deal

Hitachi Travelstar Z5K500 (5200rpm) 3tb (used) for 45$

Comes with 1 month warranty,

Hitachi travelstar 7200rpm 2tb (used) for 43 dollar

No warranty,

Or

Wd green 2tb (new) for 43 dollar

1 year warranty

Or

seagate barracuda 2 tb (new) for 50$

1 year warranty

Smh

Oh and i already decided to buy samsung evo 850 

 

You posted this in “Servers and NAS” so all the answers so far were assuming you would buy drives designed for that purpose. But of the options you listed, never buy used hard drives, and never use Green drives for anything “server”-ish or in an array/RAID. So that leaves the Barracuda.

[Non Binary]

1 hour ago, brwainer said:

You posted this in “Servers and NAS” so all the answers so far were assuming you would buy drives designed for that purpose. But of the options you listed, never buy used hard drives, and never use Green drives for anything “server”-ish or in an array/RAID. So that leaves the Barracuda.

woops didn't realize that my bad