OK /g/, what 1TB single-platter HDD should I buy? Will be used mainly for storage, won't run 24h/day. Will picrel do?
inb4 Backblaze graphs
it literally doesn't matter, it's all a lottery anyway
>>51858361
HGST End of Story.
>>51858376
Thinking this is anywhere close to true. Seagate drives will fail early, and fail often. WD is better, but still shit. In ten years running a set of servers for my business, I can't recall a single HGST drive biting it.
>>51858415
I have a HGST it was dying on me. WD has never failed me. I have the HGST somewhere it's a 1TB drive, I'll probably re-use it soon. It was making grinding noise, but was still working, CryptoDisk or whatever it's called said it was on Caution
>>51858415
>>Thinking this is anywhere close to true.
It's true.
You see something like "Seagate fails twice as much as HGST" or whatever, but in reality this is 4% failure a year against 8% failure per year.
You're rolling the dice with either.
Makes sense to roll the better die, but not choosing seagate won't make your harddrive not die.
>>51858361
Here's what do, OP. By At least 4: http://www.microcenter.com/product/451130/Ultrastar_A7K2000_2_TB_7,200_RPM_SATA_II_3Gb-s_Internal_Hard_Drive_-_Refurbished
RAID 1
Prophet
I've had a 2TB Seagate Barracuda for close to 2 years and its still running strong, 200 days of power on time too
>>51858361
>1TB single platter
You know nothing about harddrives
>>51858480
I have about 50 Spinning disks in my colo. Most of them are Seagates because that's the OEM choice for Dell. None of those drives is older than 3 years. The first year I had 6 of the Seagates go bad, 4 the next, and 5 so far this year. 17/50 is not good odds. I have replaced all of the failed Seagates with HGST and haven't had any of those fail. It's anecdotal to be sure, but it's a better sample than, "My mom gave me a seagate drive when I was born and it's still running, and I just bought a Hitachi last year and it's already dead."
>>51858486
>>1TB single platter
>You know nothing about harddrives
The WD1003FZEX (Black, 1TB) drive is single-platter.
Your move.
>>51858361
get a 2TB nignog.
