Hey guys, I'm after a pair of 2TB HDDs, one is for my /home partition (effectively 'My Documents' on linux) and the other is a backup of the first. This Seagate LP is certainly the one of the cheapest. It gets good reviews too, beating most 'green' drives and rivaling the 7200rpm ones, but I've never owned a Seagate drive before, are they ok? In an ideal world I'd have a WD Black and a Green for use and backup respectively, but that's almost £200 of drive, what would you guys do?
i stay away from seagates anymore. their build quality has gone down drastically since their acquisition of maxtor. i've had 4 failures in the last 3 years with seagates. i'd go with either a samsung or hitachi, depending on which i could get cheaper.
Another vote for Samsung drives. I'd stick with the F4 though, it's quieter than the F3EG and cheaper too (on Newegg).
I always stay away from Seagate drives because of reliability, and I don't really trust Samsung drives either to be honest. A couple of friends had F1's fail on them and I had a single failure of an F1 in a customers PC as well. Call me a fanboy but I'm sticking with WD drives all the way. I'm currently using five 2TB Caviar green (WD20EARS) drives and two of their older 1TB brothers in my own storage/backup configuration and they're performing really nicely.
The F4 2TB wasn't out when I bought the F3EG. As far as I can tell they put out the same noise level I like WD drives too but I don't like the "green" line they put out. If you compare some of the reviews on newegg, the samsung is higher rated and seems like there are less failures. I do however like the "black" series of drives.
If I need a high performance drive, it's gotta be WD Black all the way. But for mass-storage I'd go with the F4's.
Yeah, my laptop and one of my desktops run on Scorpio Black and Caviar Black drives and they're really good, but they're way too expensive to put 5 or 10 of in my server And like i said, I hav some mistrust for Samsung drives. None of my WD Cav Green's have failed yet, and they're on 24/7,365
Another vote for Samsung, I have an F3EGs and two F4s in my server. They're pretty much identical in terms of noise (i.e. barely audible).
I'm a samsung f3 user here for my 1tb drives. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned a WD caviar black in a 2tb drive. 5 year warranty vs 3, but hey. I suppose the fact that the difference in price between the f4 and WD is quite a bit.
Actually I mentioned the Blacks in my OP, but they're over twice the price of the Seagates, Samsungs and WD Greens. I was really hoping fro something faster than the WD Green, I have a 1.5TB one of those that's too slow for what I had in mind, I wish there was a F3 2TB, a fast one like the 1TB ones. Seems the general consensus is either an F4, WD Green or if I can justify the black then going for that? There's no middle ground?
Take a look at the comparison between the WD Black, Green, F4EG and the cuda XT http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...4718]=on the auto url this is being a bitch
At work the highest failure rate drives we sell are Seagate's. I don't own one, I personally only have Samsung and Hitachi Drives (+ my Corsair SSD) and have never had issues. One of our customers (who used to be a "fanboy" of seagate" has just ripped out 4x 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 drives and replaced them with Western Digital RAID drives. The Seagate's kept falling over and upsetting his RAID 10 setup. He finally bit the bullet when he realised he had RMA'd every one of the 4 drives. At work we consider Seagate Certified Repaired HDD's as good as waving your data/install goodbye. We give those to people we don't like (this never really happens )
Every Seagate I've owned... and all the ones I still own, have reallocated sectors. The one I currently have had reallocated sectors out of the box. The sector count goes up monthly too. I've had no problems with Samsung drives. I have WD Greens in my servers (8 of them), and I've already had one failure. Since then all has been fine however.
