High Capacity Storage: Best options

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I have been waiting for black friday to get good prices on HDDs.

Purpose of thread: find best options for each capacity and have them all available here. Helpers are invited to help add and improve best options.

This is much more compact and efficient. then 1 thread 1 product.

If not ok then move to storage solutions forum or any better forum for my purpose.

 

Questions: Is Pc builder a nice site for finding good deals ( I mean doe sit update fast enough)?

Whats the catch with bare drives, what doe sit signifi?

 

Performance options are nice too. while storage remianing the highest pondering price priority.

1TB:

 

2TB:

 

3TB: Seagate Barracuda [100$+ freeshipping] : newegg.ca (23% reviews ar DOAs after 2.5 years, it seems it systematicly fails shortly after waranty period of 2 years)

Toshiba [100$+ 6$ shipping ] newegg.ca (39% 1star reviews, is this normal for every drive..come on. how meaningful is it? )

4TB:

[Aniallation]

I'd get a WD Blue drive over a Barracuda. WD has been doing better then Seagate in failure rates lately.

[Faceman]

I'd get a WD Blue drive over a Barracuda. WD has been doing better then Seagate in failure rates lately.

Care to substantiate those claims?

[Aniallation]

Care to substantiate those claims?

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/

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I think barracuda is fastest with the exception of WD blacks. I cant substantuiate much. Been tlaking to savy people about their performance....(benchmarking our laod times, the HDD black was massive in performance)

 

 

Reliability is important. Divide storage by reliability. or multiply it by years.

 

wish they had a StorageXtime / price

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https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/

I saw that, maybe they just have a bad life with server usage.

How well does that correlate with user desktop?

[Aniallation]

I saw that, maybe they just have a bad life with server usage.

How well does that correlate with user desktop?

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2687068/consumer-drives-shown-to-be-more-reliable-than-enterprise-drives.html

 

"The assumption that enterprise drives would work better than consumer drives has not been true in our tests," the company stated in a blog post. "I analyzed both of these types of drives in our system and found that their failure rates in our environment were very similar — with the consumer drives actually being slightly more reliable."

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http://www.computerworld.com/article/2687068/consumer-drives-shown-to-be-more-reliable-than-enterprise-drives.html

 

"The assumption that enterprise drives would work better than consumer drives has not been true in our tests," the company stated in a blog post. "I analyzed both of these types of drives in our system and found that their failure rates in our environment were very similar — with the consumer drives actually being slightly more reliable."

thats the answer to a different similar question.

[W-L]

Wasn't it stated in a WAN show that their testing methodology was flawed since it wasn't a true apples to apples comparison?

[WoodenMarker]

Pcpartpicker doesn't catch every deal. No catch to bare dries--just no retail accessories.

 

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/

I saw that, maybe they just have a bad life with server usage.

How well does that correlate with user desktop?

The article is really skewed due to the batches that were tested and should be taken with a mountain of salt. http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/6028/dispelling-backblaze-s-hdd-reliability-myth-the-real-story-covered/index.html

[Aniallation]

Wasn't it stated in a WAN show that their testing methodology was flawed since it wasn't a true apples to apples comparison?

Well just a skim would show it's server vs desktop drives, as well as drives with different capacity (only constant over the brands is 3TB)

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So what do you guys think are the odds with the seaggate at 99$ on newegg?

[W-L]

Well just a skim would show it's server vs desktop drives, as well as drives with different capacity (only constant over the brands is 3TB)

 

Yeah, basically use the proper drives for the proper scenario, especially for multiple drive configurations.

 

 

So what do you guys think are the odds with the seaggate at 99$ on newegg?

 

I'd get one it's a pretty good deal for that size.

[watts300]

Get a backup drive, too, and stop worrying about it. 

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Do deals get better tmorrow or later...what are the prospects?

[Faceman]

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I've owned both Seagate and WD. Both brands work very well and I haven't had any failures, knock on wood.  The different drives I have owned are: 10k RPM 320GB Western Digital, and a 2TB Seagate, both are 8 years old.  I also have a 5 year old WD 2TB External HDD.  And most recently I purchased another 2TB Seagate Barracuda.  With any HDD there is a chance of failure, whether it be entry level, or enterprise.  That link you shared is incredibly flawed, and needs to be thrown out for desktop users.  I say get whatever is less expensive at the time, and there is no need for enterprise level HDDs if you aren't doing professional type work.