Hi All, As the title says. Which 2/3tb drive should I get. Is Seagate good enough? I already have a 3tb wd red but want another drive which should act as a backup and will run in HTPC. Thanks, Shah.
WD all the way for reliability. Most people will have had good & bad experiences with all brands, but WD tends to be the better option overall.
Seagate had a rough patch with some really terrible series of drive. But they seem to be back and good since snapping up Samsung. I have a recent 2TB seagate and it's been good so far and is nice and quiet and the fastest mechanical I have had often sustaining 120MB/s transfer speed across the network. Really though I just tend to buy whatever is on sale for the best price. I have Toshiba, Samsung, Hitachi, Seagate, WD, they all are fine it dosen't really matter that much.
Cool thanks for the replies guys. I will pull the trigger on WD Red 3tb in that case. Then I can mirror the data so will have a back up.
As much as I hate to say this I'm replacing my 3TB WD RED drives as I've found them to be just too damn slow (it's possible mine are the lemons but I'm still not pleased). The replacements are WD 4TB RE4 drives though as I've had nothing but great performance from them, too bad they cost an arm and a leg each.
Really? I've run 7200 RPM drives for years up until my acquisition of the REDs with zero problems. In fact my father's rig which runs 2TB RE4 drives actually streams better than mine.
For a normal pc use the faster ones are better for nas some peeps say stick with lower rpms According to freenas faq:- "7200 RPM SATA disks are designed for single-user sequential I/O and are not a good choice for multi-user writes." I know few peeps using 7200 drives with thier nas boxes fine, I just want to play it safe
Hey that's fair, I just felt I had to toss in my two cents as well sine I've experienced both types of drives now.
These take hours to format so that is where it annoys me otherwise these should run quietly/reliably which is more important right now.
