So i currently have Seagate 7200.12 barracuda 500gb, Not issue with it after 23157 of power on time which is around 3 years of one time at this point and 12 relocated sectors. It still works as good as the day I got it. And to this date have always used a seagate HDD and have been for 25+ years. Now since I made this my Backup drive/Games HDD I have started to run out of space on it. So i started looking around for 1 or 2 TB HDD Any recommendations? A HDD that is quieter or just as quiet as what I have and Faster if possible would be great I get about 75-95 read/write and 230~290 random iops read/write speeds off of Sata II. Was looking at the WD new Black drives and at the seagate desktop hdd .15
i have a pair of seagate 2tb st2000dm001 drives, read write at peak is ~190 MB/s but look around for the dual platter ones (they also come in triple platter which is slower) http://www.techenclave.com/community/threads/confusion-with-seagate-7200-14-platter-sizes.138435/
just got this the other day, super quiet, great performance, bargain http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149407&Tpk=toshiba dt01aca200
I just bought a 2TB ST2000DM001 and it's great, I'm pretty sure it's the fastest 2TB drive available. There are 2 versions of the drive though, make sure you get the one with indents like shown in the picture. Indented. Not indented.
I've had several ST2000DM001 drives (all indented versions), and I still have two. The first lot I bought them I must have had a bad batch, because two out of three were faulty. I posted about this on here a while back . I gave them a second try a bit later and had no issues with them. I believe they are the second best standard drive to get at the moment, but of course it's also a personal preference thing. I think the best ones are the Toshiba's, as Eclap has mentioned. I have the 3 TB versions (DT01ACA300). I say best and second best standard drive, as there are better drives around, they just cost a lot more! (Enterprise drives) Apparently Seagate are bringing out drives with 1.3 TB /platter this year using a new recording technology, so the favour may tip back to Seagates advantage when these are released.
yo pill, check out my post higher up, the new one comes in 2 and 3 platter, both have the indents but one is a deeper indent, and the faster one (2 platter) has an engraved square barcode. thats the one you want to go for
I thinking one of these 2 WD1003FZEX ST1000DM003 Might go for 2TB verison of one of the 2, Shall see after while of look around, if I stick with seagate or try something new
Afaik the only non-enterprise 2TB HDD available is the ST2000DM001 which is 3 platter: ST1000DM003 is 1TB, that's what the ST1000DM003 part means.... I think there were a few problems with the 3TB drives, no idea if they've been sorted out.
Hi, ive been running a sata2 1.5tb Seagate baracuda since 2010 maybe earlier, was used as storage and also ran my games off it...never had any issues and it still runs like new although i now run my games off my WD velociraptor sata3 1tb drive which is also a fantastic drive although expensive but you get what you pay for
After looking at Clawedge's link I realized I posted a pic of the 3TB Constellation when it should have been this one; Indented Sorry about that..
Hi you're right there are 2&3 platter versions but according to the datasheet they have the same density and transfer speed......
Hate to tell you guys but I think your Toshiba's are actually rebranded Hitachi Deskstars which have a very high fail rate. That may be why they were cheap.
Most hard drives have similar fail rates. Seagate seem to produce the most unreliable drives atm. I've been rocking a Hitachi Deskstar 500gb drive for some years now, not a single problem. Do you have any proof/figures with these fail rates pill? Edit: I could've had a 2tb Seagate for similar money, but I chose Toshiba.
2 platter 3 platter this should be called "plattergate" more here http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Deskto...-seriously-cripled-through/td-p/161924/page/5