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Seagate Barracuda vs WD Black

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I'm building my first PC here in the new couple of weeks & i've been going back & forth between the Seagate Barracuda & WD Black.

 

I've been reading reviews on both of the drives & a lot of people have been saying that the Seagate Barracuda dies after about a year of use.

Now on the other hand, people have been saying the WD Black is very noisy.

So the main question I have is, is the WD Black worth the extra money?

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NO

Seagate had issues how many years ago now? Where tsunami forced them to basically stop QC

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just get the HGST Deskstar NAS drive over both. Much cheaper in almost every case, almost as fast (with similar access speeds and that's what matters most with an HDD), quiet (compared to both of the above), and extremely well known reliability...

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I have a 2TB seagate.

I have no issues with it, as long as you take good care of your system it should do you fine.

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I'm building my first PC here in the new couple of weeks & i've been going back & forth between the Seagate Barracuda & WD Black.

 

I've been reading reviews on both of the drives & a lot of people have been saying that the Seagate Barracuda dies after about a year of use.

Now on the other hand, people have been saying the WD Black is very noisy.

So the main question I have is, is the WD Black worth the extra money?

 

Don't worry all HDD's die at around the same time so you will be happy with both, just get whats cheaper 

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Never had an issue with my WD Black... Can't hear it over my case fans anyways.

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Seagates Barracudas and WD Blues are standard HDDs and last about the same. I'd use them for most computers

 

Seagate Barracuda Greens (not made anymore) and WD Greens are "ECO" drives, which basically means they are slower and you will save 10c per year. I wouldn't recommend them

 

WD Blacks are expected to last longer and some have more Cache. I'd get them only if you have a high budget.

 

 

Seagates were bad after the Japanese Tsunami, they are fine now.

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Ive always used a WD black, 2 1TB ones and a 4Tb one. You can hear the read and write head moving around when you are copying files or whatever but if you have it properly mounted its really not an issue. Unless you start hearing scraping then you have an issue. Either way dont expect hardrives to last that long. My 1tb started to get really loud after 2 years but WD happily replaced it.

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Never had issues with Barracudas but omg the failure rates on Constellations, which are proper NAS disk and are supposed to be better. 

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Why not just get a Blue?

The Black is just a longer warranty.

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Don't listen to the guy that said that they all fail at the same time, This is completely not true. The seagate ones are the worst. They have like a 15% chance of failure compared to like a 2% on a WD Red. Im pretty sure reds are for nas system though. Black are for performance and design stuff. I Reckon go with Blues. They are reliable and Great overall HDD's

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Don't worry all HDD's die at around the same time so you will be happy with both, just get whats cheaper 

ALL HDDs?

 

So I guess the drives that I had, which died at 4-5 years old, were flukes because of that one Hitachi drive that went on for 9 years or vice versa...

 

OT:

Personally, I'd go for something from WD, a Toshiba DT drive (HGST rebrands) or a HGST drive if you can pick one up for a similar price.

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