hi need a new drive for movie/tv storage and Seagate/WD 3TB seems to be sweet spot these days at $130
I remember seeing somewhere ages ago , maybe when they first became available, they fail more than 1-2TB drives.
anyone care to comment on price/brand /failure rate/what u had for lunch etc?
cheers
ive had both brands. none of newer large capacity 1GB + have ever failed on me.
I think the two failures I had were both 40-80GB WDs
Large drives of any flavour can fail, you need backups or RAID if you are to protect yourself from random fallovers. I've had more than 1 drive die on me over time.
The 3TB WD Cavier Blue(WD30EZRZ), the old Green drive, can be had for $130. I'd be inclined to get two, and something to house them in RAID.
thanks mate, its just to store video on, I back up every now and then to an external so I don't lose my collection
what do u mean old green drive? isn't that the one that parks the disc? I want to use for recording TV on WMC…thought the green drive was no good for that as its always stopping and starting, leading to early failure
Yep, its just the renamed old green drive (5400rpm), the code kinda give it away.
However the 8sec park on that drive is no real problem, if you are likely to hit it you just run the program to stop the unload timeout and it works fine.
cheers ..don't understand that so will prob just avoid the parking drive then. I remember when I first built the machine that I avoided the green drives for that reason
got a question re 5400 vs 7200 below…would appreciate if you have anything to add, thanks again!
It's really not an issue. Just look for "wdidle3" for the prog to change the setup.
5400rpm is fast enough for data storage and serving up movies, and saves power etc. There really isn't much of a place for 7200 in a world of SSDs.
Nope, but they cost more for very little extra in my view.
Should also say that many people look for external WD Elements drives on offer and rip the drives out of those.
If you want to make sure it's got the best chance, get a WD Red, they're supposed to last the longest (within reasonable purchase price anyway). Same drive that's in the MyClouds
thanks mate…I record and watch live tv through WMC current on a 2tb Seagate 7200rpm. just realised that both the WD blue (which was green) and WD Red are both 5400rpm.
I also have an older WD Blue 1Tb in there which was the original drive so would be 7200rpm
do the rpm's make a diff as ive never had a 5400 in this machine?
Doubt it lol but the reds are designed to be constantly spun up and down, designed for your sort of usage
cheers man …I know everyone bags the barracuda seagates but mines been fine for like 3.5 years of recording and deleting tv …playing devils advocate but why would I get the wd red over a 3tb barracuda?
1tb and also 3tb WD have failed on me. Plus I just had a ham sandwich.
cheers. noodles for me
HGST is the best, then WD. Seagates fail too often. I have seen this with our server farm (200+ HDs). Unfortunately it seems like some reports out there are showing similar results. I think Seagate started using cheaper components and their fail rates started skyrocketing. All the bad press might mean they are taking things seriously and turning the corner, need to wait and see.
cheers man …I know everyone bags the barracuda seagates but mines been fine for like 3.5 years of recording and deleting tv , was bought 12/2012.
maybe there were bad batches after that and now they are ok again?
All you really need to know about drive reliability is put together best by this backblaze report.
It basically says hgst > wd > seagate in the 3tb drives. From my own personal experience I have had extremely similar results.
In my opinion however, skip the 3tb drives all together and get a 4tb instead.
thanks - think ill just get another 2tb barracuda. cheap, no head parking, and fast 7200rpm
had one that's been going on 4 years with near daily use read/writing in WMC.
that way when I run put of space again in a future, hopefully 3-4tb are more reliable
Got my Seagate 3TB a few weeks ago at officeworks with price match. Paid on total $132.05, best price in the market:
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers-tablets/all-computers--t…
http://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/seagate-3tb…
Wasn't it suppose to be $118.75 if you price beat pclan deal that was posted on ozbargain a few weeks ago?
JB HIFI had 4tb for $160 at one stage - I'm starting to regret not getting it! but there should be a deal similar to that later this year I presume…
For what it's worth, i've never had a Seagate not fail and never had a WD fail.
But, I had those Seagates longer over many years and now run 4 WD that have not missed a beat.
I am not an expert and can't tell you for sure if hour for hour they are better, but I now always pay that bit extra for WD.
I'm not sure i'm alone in that view based on the number of times this issue has been discussed here.