Hard Drives (WD)

[XdoniasRadeon]

Should I get a single 6TB WD blue drive or go for two blue wd 3TB hard drives? which would be better

[Ophidio]

3TB drives tend to have a lot of problems and failures from any maker so definitely just go with one 6TB or 3 2TB as 2TB drives seem to be the best when it comes to life span and performance. 

[AverageHardware]

From my perspective, I would prefer two smaller drives rather than one bigger. If that 6TB dies, you just lost 6TB of data. If you have two smaller, you lose half the data, or you could even put them in RAID1.

[Windows7ge]

2 minutes ago, XdoniasRadeon said:

Should I get a single 6TB WD blue drive or go for two blue wd 3TB hard drives? which would be better

The 6TB would be easier to manage while 2x3TB would be more work and double the points of failure. Speed wise I think you'd keep more speed going with a single 6TB drive over 2x3TB unless you would plan to configure them in RAID 0.

[Automobili3XF]

I would opt for the single 6tb drive, as mentioned before, 3TB drives are prone to failure independent of the manufacturer.

A single 6TB drive would be also much easier to configure.

[Automobili3XF]

I've got to ask, do you work with video editing or something similar? 6TBs is a LOT of storage...

[DioOmicida]

Did some research on the 3TB drive failure issue and it seems to be limited to Seagate Drives:
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/222267-seagate-faces-lawsuit-over-3tb-hard-drive-failure-rates
http://www.eteknix.com/3tb-seagate-hard-drives-43-failure-rate-constant-use/
The 3TB WD drivers function as expected. I'd get the two 3TB drivers.
You're drives will fail at some point and I'd rather have a second backup/overflow drive.  

[XdoniasRadeon]

6 minutes ago, Chevy_Monsenhor said:

I've got to ask, do you work with video editing or something similar? 6TBs is a LOT of storage...

im building a system soon for editing and gaming I used an external 4tb hard drive by wd and that filled up

[Captain_WD]

On 23.05.2016 г. at 7:49 PM, XdoniasRadeon said:

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Hello

 

My two cents here:
A single drive would use less power and would produce less heat, vibrations and noise and may be a better choice from a budget point of view.

 

Multiple drives may be better in terms of data safety and mobility as you are free to take one drive out with the data on it and still have access the other drive for its data. In case a dive fails you will still have the other part of the data on the other drive while if you have everything on a single drive you may lose everything if something happens with the drive. Pretty much the same case as the eggs and the basket. 

 

It would be really up to you to decide which of these has priority in your case.

 

Captain_WD.