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I'm looking to purchase a new 1 tb HDD and don't know which to chose. They both are regarded as on of the best drives. However, I don't know which one is better, faster, reliable, etc. Which one would be the better one to purchase? Please give any experience that you may have with either of the drives. Thanks.

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I have a Seagate Barracuda in my rig as my main storage drive right now and have had no problems, but WD is often considered more reliable. If you're just looking at 1TB, I'd go for the Blue drive. If you wanted to move to a 2TB drive, then the Barracuda, seeing as the blue doesn't come any bigger than 1TB.

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I have the Barracuda drive in my system, I like it. My uncle who works a lot with drives and things personally had a lot of problems with WD and told me not to get it so I guess that something that I'm a bit bias on :mellow:

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well look at this way if you are going WD you have 4 choices:

Black - known as gaming style HDD should not be run 24/7 but is very quick

blue - casual drive slower than the black but can be run 24/7 ( i beleive anyway i am a bit drunk so xD )

red - known as a RAID drive for sure can be run 24/7 very good for storage comes from 500-4TB i believe

green - for low power usage also known as green peace aha good for low power consumption but not for high usage as it is very slow. but also great for mass data storage 

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well look at this way if you are going WD you have 4 choices:

Black - known as gaming style HDD should not be run 24/7 but is very quick

blue - casual drive slower than the black but can be run 24/7 ( i beleive anyway i am a bit drunk so xD )

red - known as a RAID drive for sure can be run 24/7 very good for storage comes from 500-4TB i believe

green - for low power usage also known as green peace aha good for low power consumption but not for high usage as it is very slow. but also great for mass data storage 

 

Blue and Black probably shouldn't be run 24/7, they just aren't robust enough (Blue only has 2 years warranty). Red or Enterprise drives are needed for that kind of operation.

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barracuda, i have it right now and i dont complain, barracuda is cheapest, best for me

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Blue and Black probably shouldn't be run 24/7, they just aren't robust enough (Blue only has 2 years warranty). Red or Enterprise drives are needed for that kind of operation.

black i can understand, blue i don't really know what that one is for. 

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black i can understand, blue i don't really know what that one is for. 

 

It's the cheap, budget stuff.

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Western Digital is by far the fastest and better by any standards. It is the most reliable by all means. They just last.

Any statistics to back this up?

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Western Digital is by far the fastest and better by any standards. It is the most reliable by all means. They just last.

*cough* fanboy *cough*

The barracuda's performance is between the black and blue. 

Also, WD and seagate are pretty much equally reliable and it's very likely their hdd's come from the same factories. 

 

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Both are good drives. The barracuda is slightly faster. Get whichever is cheapest.

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*cough* fanboy *cough*

The barracuda's performance is between the black and blue. 

Also, WD and seagate are pretty much equally reliable and it's very likely their hdd's come from the same factories. 

 

@guas5373

Both are good drives. The barracuda is slightly faster. Get whichever is cheapest.

I've had good luck in the past with a barracuda drive, so I'll probably be getting that. Thanks for the info.

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*cough* fanboy *cough*

The barracuda's performance is between the black and blue. 

Also, WD and seagate are pretty much equally reliable and it's very likely their hdd's come from the same factories. 

 

@guas5373

Both are good drives. The barracuda is slightly faster. Get whichever is cheapest.

Screw you. Western Digital is more reliable according to the millions of hours of research I've done. WD is faster as well.

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Screw you. Western Digital is more reliable according to the millions of hours of research I've done. WD is faster as well.

1 million hours ~ 114 years. I doubt you spent that much time researching. 

Now, WD and Seagate both have many different types of drives some faster than others. Saying a blanket statement like WD is just plain faster is simply not true.

If you want to compare individual types of drives, you're going to have to show some benchmarks. 

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I have purchased 5 WD blue, none of them has failed.

 

I have 1 barracuda, Its still working just fine too.

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My mother has a barracuda that lasted her over 100 000 hours and still works perfectly fine today. I personally prefer and trust Seagate.

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