Samsung or western digital reliability

cbr · 6 Sep 2011 at 16:48

Looking to buy a new 1or2 TB drive.

to use as a store/backup drive.

reliability is important, but as funds are low,,
I wondered if the Samsung's are as good as the WD eco drives (i like these)

Thanks folks

varkanoid · 6 Sep 2011 at 17:08

Personally I don't go for Sammy's having had two fail on me and had to return them under warranty. Never had issue with Western Digital so tend to go for these.

Surveyor · 6 Sep 2011 at 17:18

To save repeating myself I'll refer you to this thread for 2TB drives:

Which 2tb hard drive?

For 1TB dives have a look at this:

7,200-RPM terabytes from Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, and WD face off

cbr · 7 Sep 2011 at 00:52

Thanks to you both

d_brennen · 7 Sep 2011 at 01:02

Had drives from both die, and iffy firmware on two Samsung F3 sorted with a flash. I'd not avoid either though, luck of the draw. At work I have one machine with a WD 40GB IDE drive that has clocked up 29000 odd hours (twenty nine thousand power on hours) and most of the others bought at the same time have long since died

cbr · 7 Sep 2011 at 01:10

Cheers d_brennen
would agree mostly,, cant help but prefer WD, i have a few old WD and still going strong.

Nice to see another NI member

a1ex2001 · 7 Sep 2011 at 14:54

Out of those two I'd buy what ever is cheapest, if it is a backup drive remember to test it regularly!

Hotwired · 7 Sep 2011 at 22:34

Surveyor said:
To save repeating myself I'll refer you to this thread for 2TB drives:

Surveyor said:

Sorry, double post.

I might as well add some benchmarks:

2TB Samsung F4:

2TB WD20EARS:

Click to expand...

*Edit: didn't see it was a WD eco drive vs a F4. Thought it was A CB 2TB vs a F4 and wondered why the WD score was so low.

remy87 · 7 Sep 2011 at 23:00

Wow that is pretty damn fast for a single drive probably would like to replace my raid0 320gb Samsung ones at some point as they are similar speed to your 2TB ones.

Surveyor · 7 Sep 2011 at 23:08

Hotwired said:
*Edit: didn't see it was a WD eco drive vs a F4. Thought it was A CB 2TB vs a F4 and wondered why the WD score was so low.

They're both Eco Drives so it's a fair comparison.

I'll refer you to this post for a comparison of the 2TB WD Black and the Samsung 2TB F4 EcoGreen.

Not bad considering the WD costs twice as much.

Hotwired · 7 Sep 2011 at 23:17

Well that's the thing, I've just been looking at a WD vs F4 comparison on the SPCR site and the F4 score is similar but the WD is much higher.

I'll post that in the other thread.