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Seagate Baraccuda and Western Digital Caviar Blue/Black...which should I get??? Any different?

 

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Spend the couple extra bucks and go for wd. They seem a little more reliable than seagate. 

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3 minutes ago, htoby said:

Spend the couple extra bucks and go for wd. They seem a little more reliable than seagate. 

Black or Blue is better? Base on price and performance...

 

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It doesn't matter unless you want a 3TB model. None is more reliable than the other for all other models. Don't let biased opinions fool you.

 

Just go for whichever fits your budget and offers you a good warranty service. The Barracuda costs as much as the WD Blue, it is on par with the WD Black speed-wise and is quieter. Some stores offer it with a 3 year warranty, which is another plus over the WD Blue. What makes the WD Black more expensive is the 5 year warranty. It's not a more solid drive or anything like that.

 

If they cost the same, the small difference in speed is not a factor and warranty is the same, it doesn't matter which drive you go for.

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Blue is long term storage, black si apparently faster

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18 minutes ago, Zhanlun Liang said:

Seagate Baraccuda and Western Digital Caviar Blue/Black...which should I get??? Any different?

 

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Blue if you would like to save some money and black if you don't mind and want faster read/write speeds. WD drives seem more popular among builders and it really comes down to what you want to do. I may be biased but IDK. 

 

In saying that, I have heard about more dead seagate drives than WD but just do some research into what other people from other forums say. :) 

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It doesn't matter.

All 3 HDD manufactures are fine (Seagate, Toshiba and WD)

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They are all a piece of spinning rust!

So it doesnt matter a whole lot.

Just grab a WD blue.

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I'm going to say WD the people above has already answered the difference.I had better warranty experience with WD. 

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44 minutes ago, siberiansteel11 said:

I'm going to say WD the people above has already answered the difference.I had better warranty experience with WD. 

Well yeah warrenty might be a thing.

But honnestly would you send back a failled drive to WD with all your data still on it?

I personaly wouldnt do that tbh, to me hdd´s are just trow away devices.

You can have good luck or bad luck with them.

If a drive fails on me, i'm simply going to replace it, and not even bother with warrenty or rma´s.

Mechanical hard drives are relatively cheap nowdays, because they are on their way out in the desktop market.

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16 hours ago, Sintezza said:

Well yeah warrenty might be a thing.

But honnestly would you send back a failled drive to WD with all your data still on it?

I personaly wouldnt do that tbh, to me hdd´s are just trow away devices.

You can have good luck or bad luck with them.

If a drive fails on me, i'm simply going to replace it, and not even bother with warrenty or rma´s.

Mechanical hard drives are relatively cheap nowdays, because they are on their way out in the desktop market.

I do see you're point however in where I live Hard drives and SSD's aren't cheap at all. when my WD black died I sent it for RMA and after a week they gave me a brand new one. sure my files were gone however at least I didn't pay another 100 dollars for it. yes WD Blacks in my local shop in the city cost around 100 dollars.

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I've had 3 WD drives and one Seagate drive. One of the WD ones has died, however it was very old (60GB). I'd say that a Barracuda is probably better than a WD blue, however a WD black is the best HDD (not SSHD) on the market. Correct me if I'm wrong, however Seagate has been bought by different companies numerous times, however WD has always remained independent (i think). There's orobably not much difference though, whichever one you choose.

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HDDs are a YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary) component. Some people claim to have the best success with WD, some say Seagate. Some will even tell you Toshiba works the best out of all of them. I've been very fortunate with my HDDs, and I have used all three brands.

 

I have also heard people claim that "enterprise" labeled drives will have greater success and fewer breakdowns. I still think all of them will run the risk of errors and breakdowns, regardless of the type of drive.

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On 21.05.2016 г. at 0:59 PM, Zhanlun Liang said:

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Hey there :)

 

As the guys explained, HDDs are mechanical units and despite everything else, failures to happen.


It's really important to get a drive that is designed for the purpose that you will be using it for. For example, if you plan on having a RAID1 array for redundancy in your system, you'd want drives which are designed specifically for RAID arrays. If you want a simple drive that you will be storing movies and music on, you won't need to get an 10k rpm enterprise HDD with numerous features as it will be an overkill. You won't use a tractor to go to the grocery store, you'd go there with your regular car and vice versa, right? :)

 

What are you going to do with the drive that you are planning on getting?

 

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