recommend hd for torrents

OvEr_KiLL · 23 Nov 2015 at 21:33

can someone please tell me which 5/6TB hard drive i should get for torrents. ie. always on 24/7
western digital red??
or western digital blue??
thanx

edit. will also be used for the odd game and also watching movies

Randall8686 · 23 Nov 2015 at 22:16

wd reds if 24/7 i run reds in my servers. will be slightly slower loading games over a blue tho but it will run the games fine. The reliability of the reds wins hands down

Undesirable · 23 Nov 2015 at 22:18

Get the cheapest drive and reduce or disable head parking using WDIdle.

rtho782 · 24 Nov 2015 at 09:34

WD Red, preferably Red Pro.

Vibration kills hard drives, and if you decide to add a 2nd or 3rd drive later for more space, they can and will kill each other if you don't get NAS drives.

I've had 3 Seagate LP 2TB drives die in 2 months.

OvEr_KiLL · 24 Nov 2015 at 14:31

rtho782 said:
WD Red, preferably Red Pro.

Vibration kills hard drives, and if you decide to add a 2nd or 3rd drive later for more space, they can and will kill each other if you don't get NAS drives.

I've had 3 Seagate LP 2TB drives die in 2 months.

so if i get a wd red not pro and i want to add another hd later on it has to be a wd red? i cant really afford the pro as its a bit more than the normal red around £50+

Biz.Kid09 · 24 Nov 2015 at 14:38

AFAIK it doesn't have to be Red Pro, we are just recommending Red as they are the best for your needs.

If you want to get another HDD to do the same thing (Store torrents) then it makes sense to get the WD Red again.

.:SAmSuNG:. · 24 Nov 2015 at 14:39

So should I disable my synology NAS from sleeping?

Kreeeee · 24 Nov 2015 at 14:44

rtho782 said:
WD Red, preferably Red Pro.

Vibration kills hard drives, and if you decide to add a 2nd or 3rd drive later for more space, they can and will kill each other if you don't get NAS drives.

I've had 3 Seagate LP 2TB drives die in 2 months.

It's more likely that you bought drives from the same batch which will have a similar mean time to failure.

Buy your drives from different places to stop this happening.

panyan · 24 Nov 2015 at 15:46

Kreeeee said:
It's more likely that you bought drives from the same batch which will have a similar mean time to failure.

Buy your drives from different places to stop this happening.

I agree that drives in the same batch will likely have similar reliability.

But all the drives of the same model will have the same mean time to failure because it is a mean across the population.

Justintime · 24 Nov 2015 at 16:09

rtho782 said:
I've had 3 Seagate LP 2TB drives die in 2 months.

Your problem was Seagate not vibration. Plus that 2tb is especially bad for reliability as we went through a lot of those in the quest for a low power backup server (not 24/7, maybe 2 times on a week for 4hours).