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The winner of this post, HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital. Their NAS are well rated on Amazon
by chdir 12y ago
The winner of this post, HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital. Their NAS are well rated on Amazon & Newegg.
Personally, I'm more concerned about the lifetime of laptop HDD (500GB range). Wonder what's the time frame around which I should swap it out (& what brand)
- seanp2k2 12y agoGiven that you can get 512GB M2 SSDs now, I'd say go for that if you're worried about reliability. From what I've read, SSDs are more reliable unless you're trying very hard to wear out their endurance (on the order of 2PB according to http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experim... )
- pjc50 12y agoSSDs also have a wide variance in failure rates by model, the highest I've heard is 8%.
- mopo2000 12y agoSSDs mainly fail by FTL corruption bugs, not flash wear.
- penguat 12y agobut there can be some interesting not-a-failure modes, I know because I suffered one and the recovery was a nightmare due to overly-protective UEFI. Fortunately, anything on my local SSD is only in cache and not to be worried about ;) (and I managed to put the UEFI in dumb mode so it wouldn't interfere)
- derekp7 12y agoFor the "not-a-failure" modes, are you referring to things like flipped bits? I had that happen on a USB3 high-speed thumb drive, where several of my source code files had random capitalization throughout the file (bit 6 was flipped on) and other weird corruption that indicated specific bits got either flipped on or off. But the drive was at 98% full when this happened too.
- Gurkenmaster 12y agoEarly SSDs used to die quickly from power failures but then the manufacturers improved them by using better capacitors.