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What is the most reliable Hard Drive Brand/Model
I had some hard drive issues over the weekend and am in the market for a new drive for my server(24/7 use).
these are my current drives:
WD 250GB WD2000BB-00GUA0 @ 19700 hrs Still running
Seagate Barracuda 200GB ST3200822AS @ 3000 hr Still running
Seagate Barracuda 250GB ST3250623A @ 6200 hr works intermittenly/seek error/
Seagate Barracuda 250GB ST3250623A @ ~5400 hr dead as a door nail
Hitachi 2TB JK1101YBJESBXF @ 100 hr brand new & still working
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What are your best and worst experiences with what hard drives?
- noonespecial 16y agoEach manufacturer seems to oscillate between building a very good drive and then finding out how far they can cut corners before inadvertently releasing a disastrous production run with huge quality issues. Seagate is the most recent to bottom out with their 1-1.5 TB drives. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-7200.11-failing,6844.html http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-7200.11-failing,684... My advice, check Toms Hardware. They're usually on top of things. A trick I've learned is to follow the big name server manufacturers. If IBM puts a certain hitatchi model in eseries servers, its a good bet that this is a decent drive. The downside is that these drives are going to be far behind the curve as far as the latest-biggest capacity goes. Never buy the latest, just released supercapacity drive at Best Buy. This is how they work out the problems before selling them into the "serious" markets.
- madmaze 16y agoThanks for the pointers, Ive been looking into WD raptor drives, I dont really need much space. Itll only be my root&home partition so a 150-300gb drive will do. Even though i havnt had the best experiences with Seagate, i was also looking at the Constellation ES drives, which seem to promise high reliability, but after consulting newegg reviews i decided otherwise.