Best 1tb Hard Drive?
 

Whats your choice on 1tb drives?


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Seagate Resurrection line is the best

Don't but Seagate/Maxtor.

Get a Western Digital.

ya looking at either

Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Green SATA Intellipower 32 MB Cache $199

or

Western Digital 2 TB RE4-GP SATA Intellipower 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Enterprise Hard Drive WD2002FYPS $299

Western Digital is the way to go, never had any problems with them, however, I did once with a Seagate :(

What Fris said ;)

Western Digital,taking seagate is huge risk.

ya my current drive is making noise, i ran seatools and failed on a short test, I guess I should replace it soon (today) since its my drive my os is on

mine is 500GB. Never tried the big ones :)

I've had good and bad luck with almost every brand. I wish there was a truly reliable brand.

vote for WD here

WD here too. Seagate, you better have a good backup. Although with 1TB, you better have a good backup regardless.

Same here no problems on two of my WD drives.

Seagate ran slow and problems then finally died, they have been having problems ever since they moved their production into a different country. Forgot where I read this but lots of drive errors and DOA drives:2 cents:

Soo big for me, but is great to have 1TB storage

odd... every single WD I've owned has died and every single Seagate is still kicking :upsidedow WD seems to last just under 2 years, the Velociraptor about 1 1/2 years. I had a head crash on my last Velociraptor. I think a 1TB drive is unreliable regardless of brand...

Western Digital or use your servers online :)

Hitachi FTW

I picked up 4 1TB WD Black editions and have had no problems. Before I load them up with anything, I always run a full error check and they've come up clean every time. Back in the summer I picked up two 1TB Seagates because they were on sale and both BRAND NEW were filled with bad sectors, so I returned them within a week.

+1 for WD Black

LaCie is awesome

I got 2 WDs and they work great

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DO NOT get the simpletech!! As I type this I am doing a chkdsk /R on one.. It has a BUNCH of our pictures from shoots on it... :helpme:(

bump for western digital :thumbsup

i have used a variety of brands WD, Seagate, Samsung etc..

I would have to say WD has been the most reliable

I've had my Seagate external running for about 2 years now without a hitch, zero noise, not a complaint about em and will be buying a 2nd external in the next few weeks.

Just bought one for my wife at Best Buy for $109 this weekend.

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I've had a few of these dinosaurs die on me.


I have 2 WD now, 1tb and 500gb, both holding up fine!

Same here. Never tried the big ones.

Just to give Seagate some needed love...I have all Seagate in my server and 5 systems, all 1 TB, and they all have worked fine for quite some time.

There's no difference in reliability between Seagate and WD.

WD recently released the 2TB Black and 2TB RE4 (not RE4-GP) drives... if you hunt around you might be able to find these somewhere. Both are 7200RPM whereas the Green/RE4-GP ones are 5400RPM. The newer models also have some extra features such as a dual head seek mechanism: this does a coarse seek like a normal drive, then an additional fine seek which can move faster than a full head servo mechanism can.

I have several drives so I keep a few spares. Rather than leaving them in their factory packaging until they're needed I open them and give them a good thrashing for at least 7 days. :) My test program reads and writes random bits of data to give the platter surface and head subsystem a good workout.

Some say that infant mortality is a myth but I've had a few drives die within a week. Given the typical expected lifetime of a HD I don't think that 7 days of heavy testing is going to hurt, and if it picks up an early failure then it's definitely a benefit. :2 cents:

Care to share what s/w you use for this purpose? Sounds like something I'd be interested in :)

You going to change that opinion when they all start to die :D

I think you missed the point... This is a good way to sum it up.

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Brand or model really has nothing to do with failure rates. Anyone with 1TB of data they don't want to lose certainly shouldn't be putting their faith in a brand name.

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A particular model may fail faster, which just means you lose your data sooner. ALL drives will fail at some point. Backup, backup, backup.

Just added the LaCie D2 Quadra 1 Tb external to my G5, I back up my Final Cut exports on it. For my PC's I use WD or Seagate, and no more than 500 Gb yet. Soon.. but not quite yet.

DG

Vote for WD.

the bigger the drive the more you lose if it fails grab a couple 500 gig drives

WDs are cheap and work fine...

Easy choice, WD black.