HDD failed after ten years or so, need recommendations!

[Manbatius]

Hi all,

My 2TB Samsung HDD has died, or is about to, (I got the clunk noises earlier) error message in windows, It was purchased between 2006-9! so has done well.

All my purchases since then have been SSDs! So... Samsung are now owned by Seagate it seems?

Use and requirements:

• To be used in my media server, only ever 1 stream at a time, usually old tv series. Photo and music storage
• 1TB (I had 2tb but it used to be a games drive as well, now media only using 600GB)
• Suitable for always on
• Under £60

I see a few options:

Cheap as possible:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/toshiba-1tb-p300-performance-hard-drive-hdwd110uzsva-hd-044-ts.html

Something more robust:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/seag...nternal-hard-drive-st1000vn002-hd-36t-se.html

Something with a 5 year warranty
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/seag...ive-for-pc-and-ps4-st1000lx015-hd-373-se.html

If I went with the last one, I would likely ditch my 300gb laptop OS drive, as it's of unknown age and install all on that. If I went for one of the others I would likely switch the OS drive to a ssd from a spare machine.


TLDR:
Drives break, need new for media server, samsung does not make drives now, under £60 1TB.


Thanks in advance!

 

[Manbatius]

To make it read/write again if you need to, run diskpart again with "attribute disk clear readonly"

Thanks for all the info, machine is turned off for now but I will do that tomorrow when I turn it on, just finished backing up.

For the ssd links I may just buy one at that price instead of switching one out of the laptop, having to clone it etc.

Yeah just for media storage, are archive disks just the cheap ones like in my first link? Or something specific I should look for, such as smaller cache therefore cheaper? Sorry that drive was the last mechanical one I bought! Last 4 have been ssds!