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I have been doing research on Seagate and WD hard drives and I have been getting a lot of mixed signals.

People have been reviewing recently about the unreliability of them, and it seems like the only solution is to dish out lots of money for enterprise grade drives in raid configurations.

Can anybody give me any models, brands, or reliability statistics to make sense of this nonsense?

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People will give their own anecdotal experiences on Seagate and WD drives. I'll give my own - I currently own 5 WD Blue drives. None of them have failed on me. My 320GB model is about 3-4 years old.

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WD red

theyre about as fast as a black but with longer warranty and life span

and still cheaper than an enterprise HDD

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I'v been using WD for ages, and have never, ever had a HDD fail on me. (Apart from that time, Centercom sold me a HDD they had dropped.)

 

The most reliable drive is the WD Red/Red pro drives, although aren't fast. Run at a slower speed for reliability.

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the issue is theres A LOT of variables to HDDs, and it takes an insane amount of time to test failure percentages, and over this time, a lot more variables can happen.

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seagate seems to be really boasting their enterprise NAS drives, with some insane warranties.

 

the only drive i've had "die" is a WD green that still works, but only when not used as an OS drive, and when formatted as NTFS.

aside from that i have a few ancient maxthor drives that say "post failure" but still run fine.

 

 

WD red

theyre about as fast as a black but with longer warranty and life span

and still cheaper than an enterprise HDD

i'm actually interested in this, you say this a lot, but i've seen very different experiences around me.

a friend of mine has a WD red in his system, and he usually loaded about half as fast as my acer TC-603 prebuilt...

and i'd doubt a prebuilt has a drive thats better than a WD black...

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Stay away from WD green drives, their dumb Intellipark took my drive to almost 300,000 load unload cycles in less than 3 years, I had to disable the damn thing.

That being said, it still works fine.

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I have a seagate 1tb refurb drive thats going strong. I also have another one of the same model that came from an HP system that died on me.

Thats that. If you need to get in touch chances are you can find someone that knows me that can get in touch.

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I have been doing research on Seagate and WD hard drives and I have been getting a lot of mixed signals.

People have been reviewing recently about the unreliability of them, and it seems like the only solution is to dish out lots of money for enterprise grade drives in raid configurations.

Can anybody give me any models, brands, or reliability statistics to make sense of this nonsense?

WD Blue or green.

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i'm actually interested in this, you say this a lot, but i've seen very different experiences around me.

a friend of mine has a WD red in his system, and he usually loaded about half as fast as my acer TC-603 prebuilt...

and i'd doubt a prebuilt has a drive thats better than a WD black...

that depends a lot on what the system is

and what operating system its using

and how long the OS has been in use

and how much data is on the drive

and how fragmented it is

 

which is why benchmarks comparing HDDs are done under identical conditions, and the WD red is clearly one of the faster drives despite being 5400rpm for the 4TB+ versions and being made for NAS

 

here are my 4TB red speeds:

 

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Would two reds in RAID 0 be a viable option?

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It also seems like blue's are good as well. For those could I do them in RAID 1?

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Any drive brand / model is prone to dying these days. Most of the time it's shipping that kills the hard drives. *shakes fist at UPS*

 

I would recommend the WD Reds or Red Pros (Though if you're looking at the Red Pro, check out the WD SE enterprise lineup...usually the SE drives are cheaper) if you're planning on doing RAID. Blacks or Blues for non RAID stuff. Greens for just data storage.

 

You don't need a enterprise drive just for RAID, that's a little overkill (Well unless you're planning on sticking 16+ drives next to each other...then you really do need the enterprise stuff)

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I have been doing research on Seagate and WD hard drives and I have been getting a lot of mixed signals.

People have been reviewing recently about the unreliability of them, and it seems like the only solution is to dish out lots of money for enterprise grade drives in raid configurations.

Can anybody give me any models, brands, or reliability statistics to make sense of this nonsense?

 

WD Purple as far as I know is not only rated for 24/7 but has some sort of extra protection against failing. You should look into it.

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I've run every drive you can think of except the enterprise drive from WD and Seagate. Greens, reds, blues, black, and all of Seagate's different drives.

The only one I have ever had fail was a 1TB Seagate 2.5 drive in my misses laptop it was the OS and main storage drive.

I'm currently running a Seagate 1TB, WD 4TB Black and several WD 3TB Reds under heavy work loads and ever had an issue with them.

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