Good brand hard drive?
I recently had a seagate drive fail on me and I was wondering what would be a quality brand replacement. I am going for something 3TB or over if that helps.
Also, is it true that if I stick it in the freezer I can get some of my data back? and is there a certain tool set that would be good for recovery? I get the beep of death
I feel like there is an image around here somewhere
I think Hitachi is good. Toshiba a shit
Just bought a 2TB WD drive, it was cheaper than I've EVER seen a HDD, but it's a WD Green, and I've heard they fail more than any other drive.
Any WD Green owners??
>>54387227
2tb green here also
been working for about four years, torrenting almost 24/7
don't believe everything the big boys tell you
>>54387052
Let me guess, no backups? You can probably try replacing the circuit board in the drive and hoping for the best.
>>54387280
It was a drive dedicated for holding 3TB of tv torrents. Not exactly something I valued enough to backup.
>>54387006
WD blacks are my goto for heavy use and reliability
>>54387324
are they not just a meme? What is different on the inside than just a regular blue wd hdd
>>54387339
black is highest endurance highest reliability
different anon
go with black
Who else here /3tb Seagate /, aka the most unreliable drive on the market? No troubles so far but nigga I'm paranoid
>>54387339
last i checked they have the longest warranty. Its a decent metric to determine how much they trust their own product.
>>54387440
>Who else here /3tb Seagate/
No one because it's pure shit.
I suggest you backup your backup. That thing is toast next month.
Just get a Hitachi travelstar (HGST) and be done.
>>54387339
They are the premium version of WD HDDs
By the way, this 'seagate is shit' meme isn't actually valid.
WD hard drives are now more unreliable.
>>54387227
>Low power, low rpm HDDs fail faster
Anon what?
>>54387440
Me I have ST3000DM001. Is that the shitty one? I even bought it refurbished.
>>54387658
How do we know that graph isn't just based on the fact that more people by western digital and less people by hgst?
>>54387658
>according to Backblaze
Fucking dropped.
>>54387703
Also this.
>>54387658
What in the fuck is this chart even saying?
WD has 7% of its drives fail but only has 1,681 failed. Seagate has 31,000 drives fail, but only 4% total drives fail?
You're telling me HGST sells 2,000,000 while WD only sells 24,000 by these ratios (obviously not total sales, but proportional)??
>>54387666
Ikr
>>54387264
>>54387666
Good to hear, got my 2TB WD for $50, and if it lasts over a year I'll be satisfied
>>54387786
>>54387703
>>54387715
it's based on percentage you fat fucks, it's not biased due to the numbers involved, each of these brands has a sample size of over 5000 at least, learn to read some fucking statistics you fat autistic fucks baka desu senpai
most hard drives get fucked during shipping to your door
when you buy a HDD from a real store, chances are that drive was shipped to the store on a large pallet, which was subjected to as little movement as possible.
but when amazon ships you a single drive in a tiny box it gets chucked all over the place. doesn't matter what brand it is, all that sharp movement and impact prematurely dooms the drive.
Can't go wrong with HGST
>>54387052
I've done this once and it worked and the other drive I tested it on didn't work. You risk much more damage later on due to moisture so you have a narrow time period for backups
>>54387834
Hello Blacked blaze
Where should I store data that I want to keep forever, such as family photos?
>>54387834
Yeah the sample sizes aren't consistent whatsoever, and hardware related graphs are NEVER unbiased.
You'd have to be a retard to get your information from tech graphs, and an autist to back up your argument from one
>each one has a sample size of over 5000
That is utterly meaningless
What's a good brand for a laptop hdd?
>>54387889
Depends on whether or not you're okay with them being viewed by others.
If you're okay, then go with a cloud program. If else, then go with an SSD.
toshiba
Western digital caviar black.
I've used just about all of them and even had some barracudas given to me when /g/ was having a weird boner over them,all 4 died.
(WD owns Hitachi HD brand BTW)
The Idea was pretty much everyone sucks so we'll just compete with ourselves.
>>54387937
>long term data storage on an SSD
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/205382-ssds-can-lose-data-in-as-little-as-7-days-without-power
https://www.maketecheasier.com/can-ssds-lose-data/
http://www.zdnet.com/article/solid-state-disks-lose-data-if-left-without-power-for-just-a-few-days/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2921590/death-and-the-unplugged-ssd-how-much-you-really-need-to-worry-about-ssd-reliability.html
>>54387889
store them on multiple hdd's, burn them on optical media
>>54387889
Tapes
>>54387996
>not having your PC running 24/7
What are you doing on /g/ anon?
>>54387786
>>54387703
How the fuck are people so retarded
Go back to india you stupid motherfuckers
Backblaze owns a server farm. They use tens of thousands of hard drives. The 'drives' number is how many drives they have, and the % is the failure rate over the stated time.
You can consider the toshiba % to be not significant because only 237 drives, the others have over 1000 drives so are much more significant in terms of reduced error.
>>54387715
>according to backblaze
The 'le seagate is bad' meme came from backblaze in the first place, so dispelling it using backblaze's latest numbers is the most powerful evidence for the memers.
>>54388041
It is on 24/7, that doesn't justify anything though.
My fucking ST2000DM001 I bought in 2012 just head crashed tonight.
I'm thinking it's not simply bad luck that every single failure I've had in the last 15 years has been a seagate - and don't tell me their enterprise shit is any better.
Last year I had three constellation ES drives fail as well.
I'm through with seagate for at least a couple of years.
>>54388164
Have you bought any hard drives that weren't seagates?
Because either way I have bad news for you:
Yes is it a coincidence.
>>54387658
>>54388045
How long realistically would an 8TB HGST drive last if it's just for storage?
>>54388197
>>54388197
I wish it was coincidence as I have nothing really against seagate - they were my #1 choice for a long time.
I've got a bunch of the old 10k raptors that still work fine.
Same with the shitty 1TB greens I bought years ago... slow but they still work fine.
Also have four or so WD1003FBYX (RE4) from the same era as the dead constellations, running the same workload.
Recently picked up three toshibas, we'll see how they hold up.
4 WD drive failed on me in 5 years
so i bought some seagate in 2012,still no problem
WD Blacks (1 1TB, 2 4TBs) work great for me, but they're more expensive than most brands.
>>54387440
>/3tb Seagate/
I'm here
ST3000DM000
Just going to buy another for a back up 64mb model is pretty safe though
but if you see 32mb on the package don't buy it.
don't beleive backblaze ether they used 32mb models in the past.
>>54387006
Buy HGST and he done with it, Jesus.
>>54387264
got two 1TB WD Greens with over five years of power on time each, they're part of an 8TB ZFS array on my media server--I know I'm one HDD failure away from losing fucking everything but it's all just TV shows and movies so I don't give a fuck.
>ST4000DM000
Am I fucked? Was the 4TB one better?
>>54387658
>>54388210
There was a site that debuked the entire chart awhile back. I forgot where.
Anyway.. the people who did that chart basically brought any harddrive regardless if it was new or not. So their sample size included new, used and refurbished shit. They showed evidence of their craiglist listing on buying any harddrive they can.
BackBlaze is not a trustworthy source on anything.
>>54388210
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/6028/dispelling-backblaze-s-hdd-reliability-myth-the-real-story-covered/index.html
Don't ever trust backblaze. At one point they were offering 5 dollar bounty on any drive they can get. Didn't matter to them if it was new, used or already dead.
>>54390054
>ST4000DM000
nah that's the new model. its not the same as the
plus ST4000DM000 series as 128mb buffer and 64 mb buffer
ST3XXXXXXX
