Seagate Barracuda good?

[MatthewLynch]

Hi, I am going to get a samsung evo 850 ssd to use as a boot drive and was planning to get a 2tb seagate barracuda  ST2000DM001 for games and storage. I would like to know if this hdd is good, because I have seen that they have a high fail rate, but I also see that many people use them and recommend it. Also it is cheap

thank you very much

[Oshino Shinobu]

The statistic for high failure rates most like come from BackBlaze, which should be taken with about 20 Tones of salt. 

They're good. I have two myself that have been running for around 4 and 2 years without any issues. 

[aajjeee]

if you have the money for a high end ssd you might have it for a better hdd. as for the failure rate, that was a problem back in 2006 or something like that it isnt much of a problem anymore

[Oshino Shinobu]

4 minutes ago, aajjeee said:

if you have the money for a high end ssd you might have it for a better hdd. as for the failure rate, that was a problem back in 2006 or something like that it isnt much of a problem anymore

The only issues with failure rates was a few of the 3TB models and 1.5TB to a lesser extent. Their 1, 2 4 and above TB models have pretty much always been okay.