What hard drives does /g/ use if they've still got em?
Pic is my Barracuda LP 1TB from 2009 that somehow hasn't died.
>>54825992
my desktop has a 2TB Seagate
my server has four Toshibas, two Hitachis, two Seagates, and on WD, all 3TB except for one of the Seagats (1TB)
I have a pair of old 160GB drives from 2006 that still work fine, and a pair of 500s, but I don't use them anymore.
I'm using a Hitachi 320 gb in my iMac.
>>54825992
3x1TB HGST 7.2ks in my main workstation
2x36GB Atlas Vs and an 18GB Cheetah in my legacy workstation
Some shitty Seagate 1TB in my T420
10GB Travelstar in my 600E
All the random drives I have dumped into one server.
>>54825992
OP, it was the post Thailand-tsunami drives that got fucked with unreliability problems. Seagate's factories that produced the Barracudas were located in Thailand and they had their factory damaged along with their inventory. Because of the money they lost from the damages and inability to sell products during the time it took to get the factory back and running, they had to cut back on quality control and ramp up production in the hopes of restoring inventory to take advantage of higher-than-average prices on hard drives. Drives with obvious defaults were taken out, but drives with defaults that wouldn't show up until later in the drive's life cycle were allowed to be shipped, knowing full well that they would fail.
It wasn't until 2014 that Seagate started clamping down on quality control again in order to fix their reputation from those defective drives. We're just now seeing the fruits of their labor and redesigns, where Seagate Barracudas are now well within the industry average for drive failures, which has also dropped for two years in a row.
>>54827710
Thank for letting me know where the unreliable seagate meme comes from, as long as my LP drive doesn't do something stupid, I will continue to love it forever since 1TB is all I need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lx1_HygVcM
>>54825992
Random 1tb WD green in my old optiplex i never use anymore
HGST 1tb in my memepad (will be soon once it arrives tomorrow) to go alongside the 250gb boot ssd.
Boot SSD + Data storage HDD is the best combo.
>>54827710
I think the even worse outcome of the Thailand flooding was the fact that that big price jump never really went away. up until then drives were getting cheaper and cheaper on a dollars-per-terabyte basis, and they stopped doing that once prices had fallen back from the huge spike.
ive been running four 1.5T seagate 5900rpm 24/7 since i bought them in 2011
I have a 250GB HD from 2009 that is still going strong
I replaced it a week ago with a 500GB SSD, but that thing had a veteran's funeral
>>54827955
What are you on about? Hard Drive prices have fallen to new lows as of 2015. Even before the Tsunami, the cheapest 1TB 7200rpm hard drive was $80-90. You can snag a decent 1TB drive with a buffer twice the size for $50 today.
>>54827993
i bought a 1.5T drive immediately before the 2011 tsunami for $55. i remember monitoring the prices and noticed that for a few years after that flood, storage never really got back to that price point. maybe it has now, though.
>>54828026
>>54828026
You mustve got a damn good deal, but a 1TB blue drive is like 53 dollars.
>>54828026
that's $36.6/TB, at it's hard to do better than mid 30s per TB even today, at any capacity point
>>54825992
>still using local storage
>2016
all my data is stored in the cloud
>>54828198
>Using unsecured storage aimed at normies
>>54828214
>b-but muh botnet
grow up.
>>54828227
But for real though, SATA is still faster than my crappy TWC 50mbps internet when you want to download shit back.
I got a 320gb seagate from 2006ish and its still running strong.
I love the little bastard.
>>54828227
>letting someone else have complete access to your data
>paying monthly just to store data when you could get a hard drive
>storing anything on the internet, which is the mot insecure platform right now
Replace drives every 2 years...destroy old drives with a hydrologic press.
>>54828214
>>54828365
>>54828235
>not having your own private cloud accessible through your own VPN
plebs
You will never experience the satisfaction of watching porn, TV, and torrented anime anywhere with an internet connection.
>>54828501
Why not just use old drives until they fall appart?
Seagate makes best hard drives
BASED 3TB
>>54829713
Here is your (You)
>>54829733
MAD WDFAG MAD AT HIS SHIT BLACK KEK DRIVES
>>54827710
Shill detected
>>54829998
>One off
Sorry anon.
>PlayStation 2
80GB Maxtor
>eMac
160GB WD
>PS3
1.5TB Toshiba
>server
2x 1TB Toshiba
1.5TB Toshiba
4TB HGST
Picking up another 4TB drive for my server when I get a new job, at some point I'm getting a 2TB drive for my PS2
>>54830445
What is the hdd limit for a ps2? It cant surpass a ps3 can it?
>>54830591
There's a PATA adapter with the network adapter and a SATA adapter with no network adapter, I'm getting a special PCB that allows the network adapter with SATA and just popping in a large drive, no clue what sort of maximum limitation there is. For the record the PS3 came with a 500GB HDD
>>54825992
1.5TB Green
1TB Black
1TB external
And this Seagate that has been with me for almost 10 years, 8 of which constantly on.
>>54830667
33C is really cool for a 7200rpm barracuda, my old 160GB barracuda ran at 40C in my optiplex, I got the 1TB LP and now it runs at 31C.
>>54830692
Yeah. Good thing the Caviar Black compensates with its 38C idle temp...
>>54829669
For what, I only have use for 1 PC!
>>54832747
You can get a usb sata adapter, or a hard drive toaster, or get an enclosure and have something you can take your backups around in, that's what I did with my 320GB WD Scorpio black I had laying around.
WD Black 4 tb and a Re 2tb
>>54832840
RE is a pretty badass drive despite the cost, the Red is built well. but it's slower
>>54825992
>>54829669
I pool my old drives for monthly backup. Nothing gets wasted.
Oldest drive is a 80GB IDE drive but that's in Momma's skype machine.
>>54833025
>Core 2 Quad
Now that's what I'm talkin about.
Post benchmarks.
Just bought a 4TB HGST. Best bang for the buck for sure.
>>54825992
waiting for my HGST MegaScale DC 4000.B HMS5C4040BLE640 which will probably arrive tomorrow, nice with more storage in the server.
I have a drawer of inactive ones, but have 2 raids setup on my comp, one raid 0 for apps and one raid 1 for storage. They work together with a 240gb ssd for Os and essentials.
>>54835225
Guy from above, this is my r0 setup
100mb WD drive from the early 90's. Sounds like a helicopter, still going strong.
WDs works for me.
Bought 2 x WD Red Pro 6 TB for NAS, 1 for use and 1 for backup.
Main one failed within 2 weeks, now I have to wait 2 weeks for the free replacement to arrive, annoying.
Also found this info, pic related, would buy HGST drives but they're expensive in my region.
I like to live on the edge. The samsung external also has a 4tb seagate in it
>>54837267
I have yet to meet a single person who bought more than one WD Red that didn't have to RMA at least one of them within a month.
I even know someone who bought 6 of them from a liquidation and every single one of them came with bad sectors or just DOA.
Same story with the older Seagate NAS drives. I'm not so sure about the newer versions though.
>>54836580
How many in that array?
-- Disk List ---------------------------------------------------------------
(1) HGST HDN724040ALE640 : 4000.7 GB [0/0/0, pd1]
(2) HGST HUS724040ALE640 : 4000.7 GB [1/0/0, pd1]
(3) Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB mSATA : 250.0 GB [2/0/0, pd1] - sg
The Ultrastar is new and the hardware is almost exactly identical to the Deskstar NAS -- presumably it's better-binned.
The only difference I've noticed so far that isn't just the UBER on the spec sheet is that the Ultrastar has APM enabled without me needing to force it on using CrystalDiskInfo.
The SSD is getting a bit shit now, write speeds have degraded noticeably and I'm about 1/3 of the way to the rated TBW of the drive.
