Putting poll out here to see that the census is on hard-drive failures specifically brands and series.
I don't have a preference, I just buy whatever is cheap, I don't buy Toshiba since they are notoriously bad for failing constantly.
But right now I have twelve cheap seagate desktop 3TB drives in my fileserver and they have been good up until now, now they are giving me trouble, bad sectors here, drives disappearing there. I also got two seagate 1.5TB which are constantly problematic.
But what's funny is my six samsung 1TB drives that I've had from 2009 are still going strong with no issues and also my two WD RE4 500GB as well.
But I've got a stack of dead or bad seagates, WD blue/blacks and shit ton of toshiba drives.
I've argue with few buddies of mine whom are in the I.T field who have sworn seagate or WD were the best and that they have no trouble. I've had one computer consultant say only to buy WD blacks.
I don't know what's a more reliable brand. Frankly I'm thinking of swapping out my 3TB seagates for 4TB WD SE drives which are "value" RE drives and still have the 5 yr warranty.
Let the flame war begin!
I don't have a preference, I just buy whatever is cheap, I don't buy Toshiba since they are notoriously bad for failing constantly.
But right now I have twelve cheap seagate desktop 3TB drives in my fileserver and they have been good up until now, now they are giving me trouble, bad sectors here, drives disappearing there. I also got two seagate 1.5TB which are constantly problematic.
But what's funny is my six samsung 1TB drives that I've had from 2009 are still going strong with no issues and also my two WD RE4 500GB as well.
But I've got a stack of dead or bad seagates, WD blue/blacks and shit ton of toshiba drives.
I've argue with few buddies of mine whom are in the I.T field who have sworn seagate or WD were the best and that they have no trouble. I've had one computer consultant say only to buy WD blacks.
I don't know what's a more reliable brand. Frankly I'm thinking of swapping out my 3TB seagates for 4TB WD SE drives which are "value" RE drives and still have the 5 yr warranty.
Let the flame war begin!
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