What's a hard drive or brand that tends to last?

This

I use WD Blue or Black. Running six across three different systems as storage only. I haven't seen one fail.

Lol just buy a Mac you fuckin poorfags

All my 3 Seagate's are perfectly fine even to this day. Both WD's I bought failed after 2-3 years.

All this stupid voodoo about brands, models, and numbers of platters. All drives can fail at any time. You need redundancy and backups no matter what drives you buy. And once you have those, it's pointless to worry about whether this one or that one has a 1% lower AFR. Buy the cheapest drives you can, since if one fails, you don't really care anymore.

Check how long they provide warranty and backup your shit faggot.

>8+ TiB HGST
Helium filled drives have their own set of drawbacks.
>maxtor makes decent HDDs
That's an odd way to spell jet turbine.

WD Black, Hitachi*, Toshiba*

buying elements 10tb seems pretty economical as the drives inside are helium filled reds. 5400rpm though.

they still do about 200mb/s write, instead of like 250-260. seems fine for the reduction in vibration and noise.

Brand doesn't matter much as all drives will eventually fail, I've stopped using seagate server drives and went with wd externals.

oh yeah, brand doesnt matter much, but that said my anecdote is a seagate drive failing on me. but i buy whatevers cheapest and not a deathstar. I do like ironwolfs but theyre too expensive

found the seagate shills

HGST almost impossible to find in my country for decent price

The more platters the thinner the individual platter ding dong

1TB single platter isn't necessarilly better than a dual platter one, just means you don't want a 8TB 8 platter drive (or whatever, I don't read much on latest HDD, very boring segment)

Also more platters = more heat

Shit half the time it's probably on the user's ventillation. Go ahead and blame the manufacturer.

Are you fucking retarded? WD owns hgst.

Unironically works in my machine
Ive had 3 SG drives, 2x1TB 3.5" and 1x500GB 2.5". Theyre both fucking ancient and I write lots of porn to them. Never had a hiccup.

I have 3 different Seagate drives in my server. One is a brand new modern day 2TB Barracuda, the other is an older model 2TB Barracuda I got for pennies as a factory return model. The last one is an Ironwood 8TB NAS model that I couldn't pass up the $185 price tag. I've yet to have a failure of any sort and they're constantly being utilized as the 2x2TB are in mirror and the 8TB is a centralized backup for all the other mirrors.

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The only hdd drive I've ever had fail was shitgate. Also had a samsung flash drive fail after too many write counts.

Same.

HGST Deathstar

poop. Naked

3pbp

I'm gonna keep using Adata and you can't do anything to stop me.

My seagate drives have never failed me.

HGST. After IBM's notorious Deathstars they fixed the fuckup and came with reliable drives.

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Only since 1.5 years ago dumbfuck

and?

use an SSD for the best results

Toshibas are bretty gud

Ok, retard.

Anyone have a ADATA SSD? Ordered one for my T500 with a optical drive caddy to have both an SSD and HDD.

The models from the 90's. Reliable but of course they can't store shit.

I primarily use WD Blacks. Haven't had one fail on me... yet.

I've had a few, and they're fine. I've just had one (lower capacity drive) become read only.

>I've just had one (lower capacity drive) become read only.

Yikes, at what capacity? I didn't know that was something that can happen. I got a 240GB.

The only time I had a HDD fail on me was a cheap IDE drive from seagate because it was caked in dust from never opening up the old style low ventilate case (I was 12 and it was my first PC)

Since then I've had various seagate, WD, and toshiba HDDs with no problems other then being the bottlenecks of a system

>Yikes, at what capacity?
Oh, that one was an ancient 60GB drive from the early days of SSDs. It hung in there for years though.

Ah, figures.

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From 20 years:
>maxtor/seagate
Guaranteed failure Toshiba
Guaranteed failure hgst
Guaranteed failure Samsung
Cannot kill these
>WD
IMMORTAL

Same experience here. Seagate lives on my brand blacklist.

Nice related post, retard.
Go get your mom if you're lost.

Seagate is still the worst, my 2TB drive started failing after 6 months.

Got it RMA'd but the downside is it's still a Seagate drive.

Only Seagate drive that failed was the Thailand affected 3TB one from 2011 or so. My WD had failed once. I now have 2 Hitachi HDD(total 5TB) and 2 Seagate (5TB and 1TB).

I recently bought WD Elements and it was dead after few weeks. Need more HDD so, probably planning on another Hitachi drive.

It's funny how people always say this, but I've never had a single disk fail on me in my life, and the failed disks I've triaged and replaced for others have been a mix of brands with just two* exceptions: The IBM deskstar (deathstar) in the early 2000s, and the early 3TB seagates. Oddly enough, I have one of those 3TB drives, and it got heavy use for three years before being retired simply because I needed more space. Some friends weren't as fortunate. It seemed like a quarter of them would fail after a few months of use, but if you got a good one it would last.

*Also the iomega click of death, but those were zip disks, not hard disks.

WD quality has gone downhill. Seems like they took the full retard MBA strategy of trading difficult to build consumer trust for short term margins. HGST is still good even though WD owns the brand now, but expect it to get fucked over within five years.

HGST as a brand no longer exists everything is WD branded.

Nah, WD is worse(the worst of the popular brands) than Seagate today, but generally, all HDD manufacturers are better today than they were 5 years ago according to backblaze.

HGST leading the pack with best quality drive that beat out the others by a wide margin.

To my knowledge, they are still manufactured separately and to a different standard. The disks are still HGST in all but labeling. Some bean counter will eventually shut it down to boost profit by 3% for one year, then 1% the next, and -2% the third.
But for now, buy them while you can.

WHY THE FUCK ARE ALL HDDS SO GOD DAMN LOUD NOW?
EVEN THE 10TB WD RED IS LOUD AS SHIT
THE SEAGATES IS SO LOUD IT GAVE ME TINNITUS
FUCK

1. HGST
2. Toshiba
3. WD

>I recently bought WD Elements and it was dead after few weeks.
Victim of the bathtub curve

I had a 1TB Toshiba that died within about a year. Replaced it with a WD Black that works like day one with no issues 3 years on

basically all you need to know

Golden rule for the HDDs

Don't buy American brands.

HGST, also I hear the newer seagates have improved considerably

Most of the bad hard drives we get back when dealing with RMA's are HGST, followed by Seagate. Then again, our customers are retards, so who knows what they're doing with the systems we sell.

I have 3 dead 1TB Seagates here. Just out of warranty. But the disks are cheap, it's the data that costs if you don't have a backup.
So, really, disks cost twice as much. You have to buy two and hope they don't both fail close together.

>Then again, our customers are retards, so who knows what they're doing with the systems we sell.
But even retards are unlikely to specify the brand of disk in their (whatever). So other brands should see similar problems.

Don't listen to the WD shills, seagate is fine.

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>Don't *click* listen to the *click click* WD shi&3#), P3$##B4%#` fine

What happened to those HDD failure rate charts we used to have?

We didn't back it up.

>We didn't back it up.

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from my experience, seagates are ass

Bought a WD Blue 6 year ago, still working as a clock. And it is a heavy-use disc ( 2 Operating systems for 4 years, and games only after that).
Meanwhile changed another 3 HDDs for low-use storage (movies, tv shows, music) and all of them died before it. First was WD Green 1TB died after 1 years, then then toshiba dt01aca200 2TB, died after 1 year 10 months and now running Seagate 2TB working fine for almost a year.
Oh and yeah, around year 3 WD 640GB blue developed 12 bad sectors. That didn't stop the bad boy who's still going strong with the same 12 bad sectors 3 years later. Estimated life remaning has been 87 days for the last 3 years.
Reply to show respect to the little WD Blue who can. Pic related.
My recommendation goes to WD Black. Because I heard that their Blue series is now just rebranded Greens

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WD are decent, at least they let you know they are actually broken or have an issue. I repair a fuck ton of servers and I wouldnt trust a seagate hard drive test to figure out if the drive was missing a platter. I have literally had it fail a drive the first pass and then pass it on the second. Short testing with it is beyond unreliable and I hate that we switched to them since WD became way too expensive, however if there is a problem with the drive, the WD testing software will fucking find it.

The Toshiba SSDs we have in nearly all of our units basically never fail though, so theres that.

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western digital has been the most reliable for me. i've also picked through a fair amount of discarded PCs and have found lots of dead and dying seagate hard drives and only a few western digital.

IBM DEATHSTAR > ALL

Which utility is this?

Small sample size, but all 12 of my hgst 8gb He are all working flawlessly 6 years later. I bought them used from a service center and they all had under 90 hours on them. Of course I dont drop my hard drives and there is good cooling on them.

what's the best 10TB drive to buy?

Hitachi got renamed to HGST

HGST got acquired by WD

WD renamed HGST to WD Gold

>WD renamed HGST to WD Gold
it's wd ultrastar now

I remember this repair firm publishing their hdd repair stats and toshiba was the most reliable

Thats a shill but this isnt?

Fuck off

what about refurbish? is it worth the risk?

Early Samsung ssds with sandforce drivers I'm betting

I had a seagate 3tb fail on me. Turns out that line had a like a 30% annualized failure rate at backblaze, aka an order of magnitude worse than other drives. HGST heliums all the way.

>read error rate = 000002480488
>seek error rate = 000003EF8095
>fine

I have the 14TB ironwolf hard drives, they're helium but its so noisy. Heard someone on reddit say about it causing a sonic boom on the outer platters causing the sound to exceed the speed in the helium.

All my Seagate drives still work after 10 years.
All my WD drives still work after 10 years.
I have 2 Samsung Spinpoint drives working fine after 8 years but they're a little noisy.
I just buy new drives every 10 years to backup the data due to paranoia. The only drive I avoid is Seagate 3TB. Nowadays I just buy whatever brand, they all work fine just make sure you do backups.

aliens...............

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Redpilled post. The brand doesn't matter much at all.

Which one is better? I care for value and having as much space as possible for one hard drive.
WD 10TB Elements External - £186.04
WD My Book 12TB External - £249.99
Seagate 14 TB IronWolf - £416.99

Just buy drives with a 5 year warranty.

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Ah yes, the infamous 3tb seagate, had a raid 6 of them in a server, and THREE out of 9 of the 3tb drives died at basically the same time, and I had to restore from tape.

Toshiba BANZAII!!!111

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