which drives?

[Afro_Lamb]

i am a content creator/gamer and am looking for drives to use in RAID1

WD Red 2TBx2

Seagate Barracuda 2TBx2

[Enderman]

WD red

and dont do raid

[DaltonM]

The high capacity Segates burn out really quickly. 

 

I know because where I work I have had to trash a lot of these. 

[Thx And Bye]

Aren't WD Red for NAS? 

Why would you want them in your pc?

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Aren't WD Red for NAS? 

Why would you want them in your pc?

I think they are just generally optimized for that kind of usage, so RAID operation, possibly heavy workload, etc.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Aren't WD Red for NAS? 

Why would you want them in your pc?

 

 

I think they are just generally optimized for that kind of usage, so RAID operation, possibly heavy workload, etc.

They're designed to run 24/7 in close proximity to other drives. They cause less vibrations and noise, and cope well with being read and written to from multiple locations. They work fine in desktop use, but are expensive. WD Blue drives would be a more cost effective solution for a desktop system. 

[Thx And Bye]

I think they are just generally optimized for that kind of usage, so RAID operation, possibly heavy workload, etc.

All i know is, that they have a firmware that's optimised for NAS. So i was just wondering why you put them in your desktop machine. (if you also have the option to buy WD Green for example)

Also i think that the WD Black really are the WD drives for heavy workload, aren't they?

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All i know is, that they have a firmware that's optimised for NAS. So i was just wondering why you put them in your desktop machine. (if you also have the option to buy WD Green for example)

Also i think that the WD Black really are the WD drives for heavy workload, aren't they?

 

Blacks are mainly for top speed

[Oshino Shinobu]

 

All i know is, that they have a firmware that's optimised for NAS. So i was just wondering why you put them in your desktop machine. (if you also have the option to buy WD Green for example)

Also i think that the WD Black really are the WD drives for heavy workload, aren't they?

 

Well, they work fine in a desktop, they're just expensive for no real benefit in that use case. 

 

WD Blacks are a little faster than the 7200RPM Blue drives (Blue and Green series are being merged into just Blue, now), but aren't really any better. The extra cost of the Black drives isn't worth it, at least. WD Blue and Seagate Barracuda are probably the two best value drives for desktop use. Though the 1.5TB and 3TB Barracuda drives have been known to have issues. 

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The high capacity Segates burn out really quickly. 

 

I know because where I work I have had to trash a lot of these. 

 

 Though the 1.5TB and 3TB Barracuda drives have been known to have issues. 

 

Yeah I thought it was just some of them.  I think the 4 TB ones are just fine aren't they?

[Oshino Shinobu]

Yeah I thought it was just some of them.  I think the 4 TB ones are just fine aren't they?

Yep, only the 1.5TB and 3TB had issues, I believe. It's probably been fixed since then as well. 

 

Seagate Barracuda drives get a bad reputation for some reason. 

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Yep, only the 1.5TB and 3TB had issues, I believe. It's probably been fixed since then as well. 

 

Seagate Barracuda drives get a bad reputation for some reason. 

It's easier for people to go "hurdur seagate is crap" than to learn something about every different model and the multiply that by how they may have changed over time

[DaltonM]

Yeah I thought it was just some of them.  I think the 4 TB ones are just fine aren't they?

High capacities have a higher chance of failing. 

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High capacities have a higher chance of failing. 

Just in general?  Maybe, I don't know.  You're probably right.  I was wondering specifically about the seagates though because some were statistically significantly off from the average, and it was only some capacities that were bad; others were "normal"