Trouble finding 2TB+ RELIABLE hard drive

NickJD94

NickJD94

NickJD94

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Hi, I was wondering a few days back about gettign an SSD for my OS and some games but with the prices so high I was considering just getting a faster mechanical drive of around 2TB's such as the seagate barracuda 7200rpm but i have been reading bad reviews about reliability.
Last month i returned a WD black 1TB ti overclockers here and it sorta 'scared' me a little because that as supposed to have a great reliability rating and that was dogged from the start.
I suppose my main point is, can I trust a mechanical drive as a main drive or do I really have to splash out for an ssd. I really love my laptops seagate momentus ssd/hdd but there are no 3.5" versions that I know of at the moment.
thanks
 
try and scout around for a Samsung f4

other than that I suppose a Seagate 2tb would be ok,but tbh your hard pushed these days imo to get a decent hdd
 
wazza300 said:
try and scout around for a Samsung f4

other than that I suppose a Seagate 2tb would be ok,but tbh your hard pushed these days imo to get a decent hdd
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Seriously?

Just because some people have had failures does not mean that all current gen 2TB drives are 'not decent'.

The 2TB Barracudas are the cheapest of the bunch from what I recall and hence you 'get what you pay for'. I have three of them (2x1TB platter versions) for 1 year and 2x 6 months with no problems.

If you want utter reliability then pay for the WD enterprise class drives.

Either way, drives fail and your ONLY preventative measure is to have data duplicated on two or more drives.
 
NickJD94 said:
can I trust a mechanical drive as a main drive or do I really have to splash out for an ssd
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considering 99% of the worlds computers use mechanical drives as boot drives and factor in that mechanical drives have matured for a lot longer than ssds have - im sure youll be fine

youve just been jolted by one bad experience, dont let that worry you in the long run

p.s. try and get an ssd if you can afford it, they are significantly faster
 
I borrowed a friends computer with SSD just a week or two ago and I almost immediately ordered an SSD for myself, in my opinion it makes a huge difference
 
mechanical hard drives aren't more or less reliable than SSD's. I would never keep anything valuable on just a single drive regardless of whether it's an SSD or HDD.

In my media server/htpc I have two Samsung F4's and a WD Green 2TB and all have been perfectly fine for the best part of two years. If I were you I would grab a 120/128GB drive for OS and applications (plus a game or two) and a 1-2TB drive depending on requirements for the rest of your stuff like media and other games. Would be a shame not to have an SSD in your system in sig!
 
They are all as reliable as each other, every maker can go through a run of bad batches. If one make was particularly bad, shops would stop stocking them.

Just buy 2x drives at a time and keep one backed up onto the other.

NEVER TRUST A HARD DRIVE
 
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