Jow Forums my 4TB hdd is dying on me. I need to backup stuff before it dies completely.
Another 4TB would be expensive.. I can get a 3TB one maybe.. What is the best HDD I can get? I've heard you hate Seagate and love WD. But I noticed most of WD are 5400rpm.. Which I doubt is enough fast.
Stick to drives no larger than 2TB and 2 platters, they'll last you a decade or more even if you use them 24/7. And stop hoarding. I know its hard, but make a fucking effort.
What HDD do you have now? HGST NAS drives are 7200RPM but they get a little warm.
Christopher Bennett
y-you too
Jeremiah Rodriguez
>Using physical media to save files. >Not having all your shit backed up in a large ZIP file with bitlocker enabled inside those files and uploaded to MEGA. What year is this? 2000?
Jason Lee
5400 rpm is plenty for porn, movies and music. You don't need super rapid seeking. You access the file sequentially for the most part, and jumping around with the seek bar will work just as well at the lower rotational speed.
Ian Martin
>2 platters why?
Easton Thompson
>stop hoarding t. zoomer with 24/7 internet access.
I got used to hoarding shit because my internet used to be garbage. I download YouTube vids and watch them offline, ffs.
Charles Turner
This. Go back to r/ProgrammerHumor with that attitude and terabytes of fag porn.
Ryder Taylor
Far more reliable these days. Manufacturers cutting corners affects lighter, less complex drives the least because the components are the same for low and mid-range drives, but the mid rangers are subject to a lot more stress, often barely running within spec (like Trashiba drives). If you cut the load in half obviously it's going to last longer.
The risk of failure increases with number of platters and heads until you get to the high end stuff, where cutting too many corners would just be worse for the manufacturers. But for the low end, well, they sell too much to give a fuck. And I'm sure as hell not paying 4 times as much for the same capacity while also putting all my eggs in the same basket.
>t. zoomer with 24/7 internet access. >my internet used to be garbage Then you don't have a fucking excuse, do you?
>I download YouTube vids and watch them offline, ffs. Never mind, you're autistic.
>You don't need super rapid seeking. Most low RPM drives these days are somewhere between 10 and 20ms in seeking, that shit *IS* noticeable. And let's not get into the constant head parking and standby crap.
What really annoys me though, is that the average drive 10 and even 20 years ago was at around 9ms, with even lower track-to-track seek (like 4ms). Even lower-capacity, "high performance" 7200rpm drives today have longer seek times than that. It's going backwards.
>6TB drives are fine for consumer use. What isn't fine is their stupid inflated price (which by the way, is headed UP, not down, as WDC is scaling down) and inherent risk of storing that much data on one drive making them poor purchases for most people. If you're not a corporation or a hoarder with more money than sense, a bunch of cheap 2TB drives will be enough AND generally reliable, even without redundancy, but single 3TB drives and larger are a damn minefield.
Wyatt Cox
If you are too poor to spend $10 extra to get a 4tb vs a 3tb you deserve to lose the data.
Dominic Hughes
I see. I have the newer Seagate 4tb (ST4000DM004), it has 2 platters and it's even slimmer than normal, you might want to take a look at it.
Daniel Perez
>$10 In your dreams, maybe.
Ryan Richardson
>ST4000DM004 There are no 2TB platters m8, certainly not in 4TB drives. Those ST4000DMxxx's are 4-platter 8-head drives, and one of the worst offenders at backblaze, see and .
3TB externals are $80-90, 4TB exterrnals are $90-100. Get fucked kid.
Justin Smith
>Films Those get burned on optical media. There is no reason to waste HDD space for them
Hudson Mitchell
how can you tell it is dying? i have a nice Toshiba external drive, 1TB. i have no idea how long i have had it, but it's been fucking perfect. i would kill myself if i lost everything on it though.
Austin Roberts
>Optical media How inconvenient. I enjoy all my movies through Plex.
Easton Nelson
i might do this. but i have a lot of shit. over 500gbs worth. how much would it be store all that?
You could literally burn all of that on a simple 10-pack of blurays
Benjamin Perry
tru. i don't know why i didn't even think of this. i'm not trusting that cloud shit anyway
Wyatt Turner
>don't know why i didn't even think of this Because it's 2018 and optical media is OBSOLETE. You should trust your data to Jewgle and Amagoy and pay a monthly subscription for it. Only terrorists would use optical media that the government can't access any time.