About HDD for storage?

[THIICUMS]

What brands should I avoid getting?

What are great brands?

[Omega]

There are but three manufacturers left, Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital.

[Set-115689]

Then there's cmr vs smr. Conventional magnetic recording (cmr) might be more reliable than shingled magnetic recording (smr). Still need multiple back ups or storing stuff on a third party server if it's stuff you really want to keep.

Then there's the usual speeds.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

WD Black and Gold
-or-
Seagate IronWolf series

Those are the only real logical choices.

However you can also get HGST Ultrastar (Helium Platform) which are good and reliable for very good prices if all you need is a 4, 8 or 12 TB HDD

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

western digital blues are my go tos

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Цитата допису HypersleepyNaputunia:

western digital blues are my go tos

Too old and slow.

[THIICUMS]

Цитата допису Bad 💀 Motha:

WD Black and Gold
-or-
Seagate IronWolf series

Those are the only real logical choices.

However you can also get HGST Ultrastar (Helium Platform) which are good and reliable for very good prices if all you need is a 4, 8 or 12 TB HDD

I’ll check them out.

However I heard Seagates are a hit and miss of failures?

I’m not sure, if that’s true or not?

I’d like to hear your thoughts?

It could be a specific type of Seagates to avoid?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Any drive out there is a hit/miss

I have approx 99% success rate w/ WD (performance drives mind you, not slow junk like WD Blue HDDs) and Samsung SSDs for example.

Most of the horror stories I read online are people who buy a drive on a very rare basis and just happen to get a DOA drive or one that did not last very long. It happens and it can happen with anything you buy, period.

Those HGST Ultrastar are also quite reliable.

Most failures we see from Seagate are their Barracuda HDDs, which are pretty standard cheap junk, just like WD Blue.

However please do not confuse the WD HDD model names with the WD SSD model names. WD Blue SSDs for example are very good and reliable.

[Omega]

Цитата допису MrYoloDickSwagger:

Цитата допису Bad 💀 Motha:

WD Black and Gold
-or-
Seagate IronWolf series

Those are the only real logical choices.

However you can also get HGST Ultrastar (Helium Platform) which are good and reliable for very good prices if all you need is a 4, 8 or 12 TB HDD

I’ll check them out.

However I heard Seagates are a hit and miss of failures?

I’m not sure, if that’s true or not?

I’d like to hear your thoughts?

It could be a specific type of Seagates to avoid?

It really comes down to the drive model not the manufacturer, all manufacturers have good and bad models.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes most people will simply suggest Seagate is the worst of the choices because of the higher failure rates seen with Barracuda drives over the years. As again these are the most commonly used drives in OEM systems over the years.

IronWolf and IronWolf Pro are a whole different breed of model; they are far superior so for these I would not see a problem. I myself would not have any problem relying on those drives. So again yes always look at model, specs, warranty, etc... don't just judge Seagate because of the Barracuda drives. As we could say the same about WD regarding their high failure rates of the old WD Green drives. But again both of these, I would expect higher fail rates due to overall design and cheap pricing. If a drive does not have at least 5 years warranty, then I would avoid it.

[Pocahawtness]

Цитата допису MrYoloDickSwagger:

What brands should I avoid getting?

What are great brands?

I find that Western Digital Red Plus are the best when it comes to noise, which may be an important factor for a home user. I have an 8TB and a 12TB and they are both very quiet.

[Illusion of Progress]

What are your needs? What role is the drive going to serve?

You should be buying a drive based on your needs and budget first and foremost. Brand and model series shouldn't even enter into it as an ultimatum since there's different ones that would be fine for some roles, and less so for other roles.

[_I_]

avoid any 'green' drives they are way too slow, and will sleep causing huge delays when they need to spin up again
it takes less power to keep a hdd spinning vs letting it sleep and trying to wake it again

in windows power settings always set hdd/ssd and other sleep timers to 0

[THIICUMS]

Цитата допису Bad 💀 Motha:

Yes most people will simply suggest Seagate is the worst of the choices because of the higher failure rates seen with Barracuda drives over the years. As again these are the most commonly used drives in OEM systems over the years.

IronWolf and IronWolf Pro are a whole different breed of model; they are far superior so for these I would not see a problem. I myself would not have any problem relying on those drives. So again yes always look at model, specs, warranty, etc... don't just judge Seagate because of the Barracuda drives. As we could say the same about WD regarding their high failure rates of the old WD Green drives. But again both of these, I would expect higher fail rates due to overall design and cheap pricing. If a drive does not have at least 5 years warranty, then I would avoid it.

Is the Seagate Exo Series any good compared to IronWolf/IronWolf Pro?

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Western Digital is a great HDD brand where the HDD's can last up to and over 20 years.

I only use 7200RPM for gaming and 5400RPM for data file storage.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

7200rpm for everything otherwise they are too slow. 5400rpm drives are better for cheap external storage as long as not have the need to transfer large files very often.

And 720prpm alone doesn't dictate everything speed wise about the drive, there are other factors