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SSHDs are mostly just marketing bullshit and you won't really notice a performance increase.
As for HDDs: Try the Toshiba N300. I had it myself. Though while it performed rather good, and might live a relative long, the work-noise could be a bit annoying for you. At least it was for me.
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| Posted: Mon, 15th May 2017 18:19 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 15th May 2017 20:06 Post subject: |
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HGST all the way. I've got drives from 2005 that are still going strong.
| chiv wrote: | | don't quote me on that |
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Oct 2017 15:15 Post subject: |
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Reliability?
Then buy at least 2x
WD +1
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Oct 2017 15:26 Post subject: |
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| cirithungol wrote: | | HGST all the way. I've got drives from 2005 that are still going strong. |
They are said to be very reliable.
But on the other side they are also said to be relatively loud. So not really suited for a desktop PC.
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Oct 2017 15:40 Post subject: ***** |
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*****
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Oct 2017 17:39 Post subject: |
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i did far too much research on this back then and the end result was that all manufacturers except HGST are shit. ended up slapping 2x4TB toshiba x300 into a raid1 and while they are a bit loud, i kind of like the retro hdd rumbling noise and performance is top notch.
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Oct 2017 17:51 Post subject: |
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Assholes 
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Oct 2017 17:56 Post subject: |
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I own 4 of those 4TB WD Reds, have 3 of them in a ZFS FreeNAS cluster, been chugging along for ~2 years now. The 4th one has been in my desktop for maybe 3 or 4 years and is just fine.
But considering reliability, I really can't remember the last time I had to switch a HDD because it broke on me. Maybe 8+ years ago? Back then it happened to me several times. The past few replacements have all been either moves to SSDs or simple replacements because sub-1TB HDDs just don't make sense anymore in 3.5" sizes.
So has reliability really gone up or have I just been lucky?
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| Posted: Mon, 30th Oct 2017 14:42 Post subject: |
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I seldom remember having bad sectors on HDDs, for over 20 years.
Maybe 3 times? 1 of which was a friend's HDD..
it's actually a funny story, I was called to install something, maybe reinstall her windows, and while rebooting I noticed her S.M.A.R.T. was disabled, so I booted again, went into BIOS and enabled it, she asked what it was, I began to explain that it checked several HDD vital signs and called a warning if something was wrong, and at that exact moment the POST screen stopped with a S.M.A.R.T. warning message 
till about 5 years ago all my drives were SEAGATE barracudas, but now I only use WD Black.
| Lutzifer wrote: | | and yes, mine is only average |
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| Posted: Mon, 30th Oct 2017 15:19 Post subject: |
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| StrEagle wrote: | I seldom remember having bad sectors on HDDs, for over 20 years.
Maybe 3 times? 1 of which was a friend's HDD..
it's actually a funny story, I was called to install something, maybe reinstall her windows, and while rebooting I noticed her S.M.A.R.T. was disabled, so I booted again, went into BIOS and enabled it, she asked what it was, I began to explain that it checked several HDD vital signs and called a warning if something was wrong, and at that exact moment the POST screen stopped with a S.M.A.R.T. warning message
till about 5 years ago all my drives were SEAGATE barracudas, but now I only use WD Black. |
I have 7 drives in my PC - two SSDs, 4 WD drives (2 green for media files like Plex movies, music, photographs, one black for Torrent drive and work files, one red for retro gaming drive) and one Seagate.
The oldest drives (2TB ones) still work great, no errors at all but the second most recent drive (not counting the SSDs) has several bad sectors. It's a 3TB green drive that's used for Plex movies and TV series. I also put less important stuff on there but while moving that stuff to another drive, Explorer kept hanging until I did a drive scan and saw several bad sectors.
Considering my other green WD was bought at the same time and has zero issues, it really seems random which drive will have bad sectors and which won't. I learned years ago to make backups of my most important files and to spread them around my drives so I never lose that much at once.
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| Posted: Mon, 30th Oct 2017 16:20 Post subject: |
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this begs an interesting question:
I have 3 obsolete HDDs, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB.
Is there a device I can attach them all to for storage purposes, outside my desktop case?
And how is it connected to my PC, lan or SATA3?
| Lutzifer wrote: | | and yes, mine is only average |
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| Posted: Mon, 30th Oct 2017 18:31 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 31st Oct 2017 09:00 Post subject: |
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Why not plug them to your PC and use windows 10 storage spaces to make them one single "big" 3.5tb drive.
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