HDD WD Black 6TB 256MB - $124.99 with free shipping.

[Gix7Fifty]

https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-black-desktop-sata-hdd?sku=WD6003FZBX

 

 

 

 

[Paul Rudd]

4 hours ago, Gix7Fifty said:

https://www.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-black-desktop-sata-hdd?sku=WD6003FZBX

What do you think of this for half that price?

 

It was manufactured in August of 2015. That's around the time I got mine(December of 2016) and it's still alive and kicking without a single issue. Holds hundreds of games and movies.

[OhioYJ]

7 hours ago, Paul Rudd said:

What do you think of this for half that price?

I'd rather pay twice the price and have a drive I can trust. My time and data are worth something.  * Personal opinion, not a fan of Seagate.

[Paul Rudd]

3 hours ago, OhioYJ said:

I'd rather pay twice the price and have a drive I can trust. My time and data are worth something.  * Personal opinion, not a fan of Seagate.

So you don't trust in what this drive has done for me over the past 7 years?

[OhioYJ]

9 minutes ago, Paul Rudd said:

So you don't trust in what this drive has done for me over the past 7 years?

Not all Seagate drives fail. I've had better luck with WD drives. (As long as it's not an external drive)

[tkitch]

19 hours ago, Paul Rudd said:

What do you think of this for half that price?

 

It was manufactured in August of 2015. That's around the time I got mine(December of 2016) and it's still alive and kicking without a single issue. Holds hundreds of games and movies.

SAS Drive, not SATA.  Can't be used in normal PCs without heavy adapting.

[wONKEyeYEs]

On 12/23/2023 at 6:52 AM, OhioYJ said:

I'd rather pay twice the price and have a drive I can trust. My time and data are worth something.  * Personal opinion, not a fan of Seagate.

More important than brand regarding failures is, for me, redundancy.

[Godlygamer23]

On 12/23/2023 at 10:10 AM, Paul Rudd said:

So you don't trust in what this drive has done for me over the past 7 years?

I have a huge problem with this.

 

Just because a particular product has worked for you for a while doesn't mean the same thing will happen with another user. It seems like people view all products as either being perfect or very good 100% of the time, or they have a bad experience with the product and thus believe that 0% of the products work as they're supposed to.

 

The reality here is...no matter how high the success rate is, it will pretty much never reach 100% - for various reasons. So someone WILL have a bad experience with a product. 

 

It's really great that you've had great success with that drive, but that's a small sample size, and doesn't mean anything within the scope of finding a reliable hard drive.  I could recommend a product to someone that I've had great success with...they buy it because of that, and then they have a failure...That's the reality of what could happen.

[Paul Rudd]

On 12/23/2023 at 6:55 PM, tkitch said:

SAS Drive, not SATA.  Can't be used in normal PCs without heavy adapting.

What on earth makes you think this is not a SATA HDD?

On 12/23/2023 at 10:21 AM, OhioYJ said:

Not all Seagate drives fail. I've had better luck with WD drives. (As long as it's not an external drive)

You got that right, not a single one that I've purchased has failed. As for luck with WD drives, this isn't a lottery.

On 12/24/2023 at 10:38 PM, wONKEyeYEs said:

More important than brand regarding failures is, for me, redundancy.

What do you mean here?

23 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

I could recommend a product to someone that I've had great success with...they buy it because of that, and then they have a failure...That's the reality of what could happen.

And there's also the reality of what could also happen. It could also... NOT fail.

 

7 years, still going strong. And get this, there's one major reason I have not even replaced the HDD I use as my OS drive with an SSD. And that one major reason is how flawless it has performed for me over these 7 years.

[tkitch]

11 minutes ago, Paul Rudd said:

What on earth makes you think this is not a SATA HDD?

IDK, maybe the description in the title?

 

 

[wONKEyeYEs]

20 minutes ago, Paul Rudd said:

What do you mean here?

Well, regarding data integrity, I find a redundant backup to be of greater import than brand.

[Godlygamer23]

26 minutes ago, Paul Rudd said:

And there's also the reality of what could also happen. It could also... NOT fail.

 

7 years, still going strong. And get this, there's one major reason I have not even replaced the HDD I use as my OS drive with an SSD. And that one major reason is how flawless it has performed for me over these 7 years.

That's great. 

But still doesn't change the fact that it could be a one-off. 

[Godlygamer23]

24 minutes ago, tkitch said:

IDK, maybe the description in the title?

 

 

Call me crazy, but they might be showing two different drives in this listing based on the photos. 

 

The description says it's a SAS drive, the first image shows it being a SAS drive, but if you look at the second photo, it shows SATA power and data connectors. 

 

 

EDIT: Nope, it's SAS. 

Edited December 26, 2023 by Godlygamer23

[Paul Rudd]

1 hour ago, tkitch said:

IDK, maybe the description in the title?

The description lists it as a SATA drive, my mistake.

 

Welp, here is the alternative for $76.

59 minutes ago, wONKEyeYEs said:

Well, regarding data integrity, I find a redundant backup to be of greater import than brand.

I still don't know what you mean by this either.

55 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

That's great. But still doesn't change the fact that it could be a one-off. 

Nor does it change the fact that it could work flawlessly for many years. Which it did for me with every single HDD I've ever owned. Not a single one has failed on me. It's difficult for me to NOT recommend an HDD because of this.

[Godlygamer23]

4 hours ago, Paul Rudd said:

The description lists it as a SATA drive, my mistake.

 

Welp, here is the alternative for $76.

I still don't know what you mean by this either.

Nor does it change the fact that it could work flawlessly for many years. Which it did for me with every single HDD I've ever owned. Not a single one has failed on me. It's difficult for me to NOT recommend an HDD because of this.

Did you buy this drive using the originally linked listing? The drive - looking it up using the part number - is a SAS drive. 

 

So my question here is...the drive you've been using...is it SAS or SATA? 

[Paul Rudd]

8 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Did you buy this drive using the originally linked listing?

The $76 HDD I posted is definitely a SATA HDD. It's now priced at $82.

8 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

So my question here is...the drive you've been using...is it SAS or SATA? 

ALL HDD's I've ever used are SATA.

[Godlygamer23]

13 minutes ago, Paul Rudd said:

The $76 HDD I posted is definitely a SATA HDD. It's now priced at $82.

ALL HDD's I've ever used are SATA.

I find it interesting that everywhere I look, this is a SAS drive, but you're recommending it, and have only used SATA drives.

[Paul Rudd]

8 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

I find it interesting that everywhere I look, this is a SAS drive

[Godlygamer23]

8 minutes ago, Paul Rudd said:

 

Right, the drive you're actually using is a different model, than what you were originally recommending.

[Paul Rudd]

1 hour ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Right, the drive you're actually using is a different model, than what you were originally recommending.

The drives I use, are nowhere in this thread.

 

If you'll scroll up, I provided an alternative to the original HDD I recommended, because someone identified it as an SAS drive.

 

My very first post, I stated this...

 

"What do you think of this for half that price? It was manufactured in August of 2015. That's around the time I got mine(December of 2016) and it's still alive and kicking without a single issue. Holds hundreds of games and movies."
 

When I stated, That's around the time I got mine(December of 2016) and it's still alive and kicking without a single issue...

 

What I meant by this statement is that around the time I got mine(a completely different HDD), it's still alive and kicking without a single issue. I can see how this caused confusion because I didn't mention that mine(my HDD) is a completely different model. It's a Seagate yes, just not this model. But it's very similar and released around the same time as this one.

 

All HDD's I've ever owned are SATA HDD's, and I can recommend similar SATA drives with flying colors.