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| Thread ID: 108267 | 2010-03-21 07:52:00 | Quality of HDDs | R.M. (561) | Press F1 |
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| 868948 | 2010-03-21 07:52:00 | I have just spent most of this last week on photography workshops. The tutor was discussing gear and said that in his view Seagate HDDs were suspect, particularly Seagate Freeagent external drives. He thought Western Digital were much more reliable - particularly WD Mybook. As most of my drives are Seagate.... I feel a little nervous, but suspect his information isn't quite up to date. Who is right? Should I rush out a buy four new HDDs right away? :( As always - TIA! |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 868949 | 2010-03-21 07:57:00 | A drive can die at anytime, a lemon is a lemon. Some might say one brand is more reliable then another but the truth is they all can die at any stage | plod (107) | ||
| 868950 | 2010-03-21 10:08:00 | Seagates and WD are always good. However like plod said, one bad batch can ruin everything... | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 868951 | 2010-03-21 17:16:00 | I have had no problems with my Seagates. And I have had quite a few of them. There was a time in the ealry 1990's when every second Western Digital failed ! (but we don't hold that against them) |
Digby (677) | ||
| 868952 | 2010-03-21 20:33:00 | Definitely a fan of the WD MyBooks, but get the slightly more expensive ones that "stand up" and have white LED's on the front, they appear to be even better quality, better ventilation... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 868953 | 2010-03-21 21:23:00 | Both are good brands. Both have their bad batches and/or just random failures, no hard drive manufacturer can be 100% reliable with current technology. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 868954 | 2010-03-21 21:30:00 | I have 3 Seagate drives in my main box at the moment. One is about 7 years old and the other two about 5 years. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 868955 | 2010-03-21 22:17:00 | Yea they all fail, Seagate, WD, Samsung... I haven't noticed one fail more than the others. I've got Samsungs and they're working fine. This is the reason we have backups, if your hdd failed right now could you recover all your data easily or would you pay $200ph for someone to do it for you :) |
WarNox (8772) | ||
| 868956 | 2010-03-21 22:46:00 | I go through a lot of hard drives, my last server setup had 6 200GB seagate drives in a RAID 5 array, and I have about 7-8 computers (I loose count) at the moment my server has no less than 12 drives and I have another 6 or 7 1TB drives floating around. I also work in IT so I am replacing hard drives, buying new ones etc. Anyway, what I have noticed is that hard drive failure rates are extremely high, for me it has been as high as one in 10 and as low as one in 20. Basically what that means is that for every 20 hard drives I purchase, I get one failure within the first year (that is my current failure rate and I am buying WDs at the moment, Seagates were one in 10). Also, if a drive does not fail in the first year, it is far less likely to fail in any subsequent year. There are exceptions to this though, for example, older iMacs have the odd hard drive failure probably due to the extra heat inside those plastic cases. If you think I'm exaggerating, just consider the amount of extreme engineering that goes in to a hard drive: The gap between the head and the disk is about 40 atoms high The outside edge of a disk platter is moving at approximately 120KM/h (7200 rpm) (based on 27.94 cm diameter disk platter) The approximate areal density of a 1TB hard drive is 329GB per square inch |
Deimos (5715) | ||
| 868957 | 2010-03-21 23:46:00 | Thanks for you comments. I appreciate the input from this forum :) And yes, I am a bit anal about my photography backups.... |
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