Need to replace my failing hard drive, which one should I get?

[Toxic Masculinity]

Hi guys, I'm going to replace my main hard drive because its been making some squeaking sounds on some occasions and yesterday most of my icons dissapeared while the hard drive made a repetitive noise like it was stuck or couldn't read something, when I tired to open folders on my desktop it said I wasn't allowed access and I had to change the permissions so I did a restart and nothing changed, I also tried a system restore so I didnt have to do that for every folder and it took FOREVER and said it failed to do a system restore. I ran a disk check and it had some errors and fixed it, but based on the squeaking sound alone I'd rather not chance it.

Currently I have a Western Digital Caviar Green (WDC WD10EADX-22TDHB0) 1TB 5400 RPM drive that came stock with my PC, I would like to get a 7200 RPM drive with a 64 MB cache and perferably 2TB, ***My perfered budget is about $80***.


- What brand is most reliable and lasts the longest?
- I do alot of read / writes.

- What free cloning software do you recommened?

**** I also have another question, This may sound stupid but I have Steam installed on a seperate hard drive with my games, if I chose to do a fresh install of Windows how would I get the folders to those games back that are located in My Documents on my main drive?, just copy them to a flash drive then copy them back?.


Please don't suggest getting an SSD to boot from.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

At that price there is not much choice but Seagate:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005T3GRN2/?tag=pcpapi-20

If you can spend $120 then WD Black is much more reliable:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236624

[Beardface31]

Western Digital and Hitachi are my favorite for HDDs. Generally good reviews; be sure to read them regardless of what you get. Find one with a capacity you like in your budget. A 1TB WD Black can be had on sale for under 80 USD. The 2TB Hitachi Deskstar for around 90.

[Samadhi]

Any Seagate or WD 2TB HDD is fine. All will last years of continous R/W.
As for your second Question, just buy a $20 external HDD case and pop your old HDD in it and copy your data back to your new drive.

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

引用自 Samaister：

Any Seagate or WD 2TB HDD is fine. All will last years of continous R/W.
As for your second Question, just buy a $20 external HDD case and pop your old HDD in it and copy your data back to your new drive.

Not ANY seagate, get the 4TiB+ ones ( I use NAS balanced ) as they have a LOWER failure rate than the lower capacities.


https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q3-2015/

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/

http://www.itworld.com/article/2938996/hardware/when-will-your-hard-drive-fail.html

[Azza ☠]

2-4TB Western Digital Black Edition (FZEX model) - 7200RPM with 64 MB cache.

These are by far more than the standard Hard Drive. Duel processor. Anti-vibration. Tilt correction stabilizing platters (on the 2TB and greater) which automatically correct themselves to avoid errors while proving their performance, etc. Ideal for gamers.

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

引用自 Azza ☠：

2-4TB Western Digital Black Edition (FZEX model) - 7200RPM with 64 MB cache.

These are by far more than the standard Hard Drive. Duel processor. Anti-vibration. Tilt correctiion stabilizing platters which automatically correct themselves to avoid errors while proving their performance, etc. Ideal for gamers.

Sounds like my NAS Balanced Seagate 4 TiB.

[Azza ☠]

引用自 The Muppet Surgery Special：

引用自 Azza ☠：

2-4TB Western Digital Black Edition (FZEX model) - 7200RPM with 64 MB cache.

These are by far more than the standard Hard Drive. Duel processor. Anti-vibration. Tilt correctiion stabilizing platters which automatically correct themselves to avoid errors while proving their performance, etc. Ideal for gamers.

Sounds like my NAS Balanced Seagate 4 TiB.

NAS stands for Network-attached storage... aka it's more designed for network servers. So yeah, you get a lot of stability and prolonged lifespan in those too. Plus set them up in a RAID (multiple drives connected together) if desired.

[[☥] - CJ -]

+1 for WD Black
Though any SATA III drive should do the trick
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And yeah as far as games go, you'll have to manually copy the save files, i found that out myself as backing up or using a seperate drive for the games doesnt include save files

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

引用自 Azza ☠：

引用自 The Muppet Surgery Special：

Sounds like my NAS Balanced Seagate 4 TiB.

NAS stands for Network-attached storage... aka it's more designed for network servers. So yeah, you get a lot of stability and prolonged lifespan in those too. Plus set them up in a RAID (multiple drives connected together) if desired.

Thank you for the lesson, given consumers use "personal" cloud storage now, that is basically a WAS (Wide Area Storage) or CAS (Cloud Area Storage) or PCAS, CPCAS, etc etc.

[upcoast]

Just pointing out the 1 TB green you have is not a primary os drive to start with.

Keep os on a 7200rpm drive not 5400rpm or 5900rpm muppet suggests Seagate 4TB that is a 5900rpm not for os at all.

WD or Seagate for home use shouldn't be a problem but which ever drive you pick for the os short stroke it ie take a small partition C 250-300GB for the os and leave the rest for storage D.

WD and Seagate both have cloning for free.

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

引用自 upcoast：

Just pointing out the 1 TB green you have is not a primary os drive to start with.

Keep os on a 7200rpm drive not 5400rpm or 5900rpm muppet suggests Seagate 4TB that is a 5900rpm not for os at all.

WD or Seagate for home use shouldn't be a problem but which ever drive you pick for the os short stroke it ie take a small partition C 250-300GB for the os and leave the rest for storage D.

WDF and Seagate both have cloning for free.

Always check BackBlaze reports, they use a LOT OF HDD's and have the data on failure rates and PUBLISH them (good for us :) ).

[ZAP]

HGST are the most reliable acconding to data centers. They're the only mechanical I would use.

I like the Deskstar NAS models personally.

[The Muppet Surgery Special]

引用自 ZAP：

HGST are the most reliable acconding to data centers. They're the only mechanical I would use.

I like the Deskstar NAS models personally.

I shudder when I think of them, I had them in the IBM days when they owned them before being sold to Hitachi, we called them DeathStars. I've had them with that CLICK OF DEATH :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwadUc5T4V4

www.cnet.com/uk/news/ibm-travelstardeskstar-hard-drive-failure-class-action-suit/

I remember after they sold to Hitachi, I got an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop and the first thing I replaced was the internal Hitachi Death Drive :) Those IBM memories still live on today :)

Seagate and WD (alougth I have run with Seagates for all time really) for HDD and Samsung for SSDs.

[ZAP]

引用自 The Muppet Surgery Special：

引用自 ZAP：

HGST are the most reliable acconding to data centers. They're the only mechanical I would use.

I like the Deskstar NAS models personally.

I shudder when I think of them, I had them in the IBM days when they owned them before being sold to Hitachi, we called them DeathStars. I've had them with that CLICK OF DEATH :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwadUc5T4V4

www.cnet.com/uk/news/ibm-travelstardeskstar-hard-drive-failure-class-action-suit/

I remember after they sold to Hitachi, I got an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop and the first thing I replaced was the internal Hitachi Death Drive :) Those IBM memories still live on today :)

Yeah I remember the Deathstars, LOL.

These truly are the best drives available today for home use though. Look around the net and you'll see.

[upcoast]

引用自 The Muppet Surgery Special：

引用自 upcoast：

Just pointing out the 1 TB green you have is not a primary os drive to start with.

Keep os on a 7200rpm drive not 5400rpm or 5900rpm muppet suggests Seagate 4TB that is a 5900rpm not for os at all.

WD or Seagate for home use shouldn't be a problem but which ever drive you pick for the os short stroke it ie take a small partition C 250-300GB for the os and leave the rest for storage D.

WDF and Seagate both have cloning for free.

Always check BackBlaze reports, they use a LOT OF HDD's and have the data on failure rates and PUBLISH them (good for us :) ).

Backblaze is informative but most home users aren't operating a commercial server in their home.

Out of the 20+ drives I've got going 3 are the dreaded Seagate 3TB although they are the cheapest/fastest of retail drives I still haven't had them die yet 2+ yrs, I've got 2 sata2 1TB seagates still going as work drives from years ago when 1TB was considered a huge drive, there's even 3 sata2 640GB WD black drives going still. Oh ya I've got 3x4TB also 1 wd and 2 Seagate.

The point that you recommend a 4TB 5900 for os is a bit ridiculous and I think that's why you went off on the CAPS/backblaze is god bender , so how many drives have you got going to correlated or support backblazes results, so you run a commercial server in your home?

For me personally I've had a wd 80GB, wd 2TB green crap out under home use/network.