Teknicians, please enlighten me.
I'm coming to the stage in my PC build where I'm picking up the drives. My OS and most games and programmes are gonna be on 2x500GB 850 Evos in raid 0.
Everything else is gonna be lumped onto HDD's. This PC is also gonna serve my home as a kind of NAS and if I ever get around to starting a youtube channel its content is going to be on the HDD's too.
ANYWAY!
At the minute I'm looking at picking up Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200rpm HDD's, model number is ST3000MD001.
I'd just like some judgement on these hard-drives, or are there any alternatives the Tek community could advise me with?
Thank you.
I have the same HDD and it's running fine (a few months now), however I have heard / read that the 3TB HDDs have the highest failure rate :-/
EDIT
Found the article: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/
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43.1% failure rate! WHAT?
Wow, it appears I'll seriously need to reconsider them, especially because i'm thinking of buying more than one, every second one is almost liable to fail going by those numbers!
Although one would assume Seagate fixes the problem (no good for profit and even worse for PR).
if you're willing to wait, there are a number of high capacity hard drives that are available for enterprise which should soon make its way to the consumer level.
HGST has helium filled drives that go up to 8tb and i think seagate is developing a shingled hard drive design that also goes up to 8tb.
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Personally i'd go with 2TB drives, since the technology is "old" and the failure rate is quite small. Less platters = less problems.
You could look at WD red drives I have two 2 TB reds in a 24/7 synonlgy nas that has been running since i bought it.(6/15/2013)
I also have one in my minecraft/teamspeak/mess around server which also runs 24/7. and have had no issues with ether of them.
drives size range from 1TB-6TB but reviews on the 6TB are not very promising.
Note* They are supposed to be NAS / small server drives so idk how they preform if you shut your pc off a lot.
In my main pc I am just running your standard WD black 1TB drive
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i have a 2TB version of this drive. and mine was doing fine just humming along and then failed out of nowhere. it probably threw a bunch of errors before it died but i dont ever check those SMART errors. my drive lasted two years. so make sure you monitor that thing.
It all depends on how much capacity you need, what kind of speed you want and how much space you have in your case.
And if you are going for raid with you hdd's too maybe you should also think about a raid controller and how many sata III ports you have. But that depends on your motherboard.
Long story short, more info please.
edit: replied to wrong post
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im against WD's in principle because what they do is just slap on NAS label and charge you more for it.
Im planning on raiding the two SSD's
The HDD's I wouldn't raid they'd just be standard drives.
mobo is crosshair V formula Z - 8 sata 3 ports, 5 of which I'm currently planning to use.
The computer will be on and off so I'll have to look into how powering off NAS/small server drives affects them.
So you've got 3 ports left for hdd's? How much capacity do you need, 3 or 4 TB total or something?
And I am against seagate as every single one of their drives i have owned have all died unexpectedly on me.
There are other brands out there besides these two, such as Toshiba, Hitachi, ect I do not have any experience with them so others would have to chime in with them.
out of all of the WD drives i have ownd only one has crapped out on me it was my oldest drive from my first gaming machine that i then put into a 24/7 server and after a year it started to just spin down on its own and start back up.
Everyone has had good and bad experiences with all brands. some products diffidently have faults, others might just be a lot of people complaining and none doing positive feed back.
agree, they have by far the worst failure rates of any HD manufacture
Sorry I wasn't very clear. I'll have 3 ports to spare when the PC is finished which I doubt i'll need to fill for a long long time all things going to plan. ill be connecting 2 SSD's in raid and a further 3 standard HDD's separately, the total required capacity I haven't decided yet, but I'll be using it as a media base as well as game library and potentially a youtube video archive. So I was gonna go balls to the wall, with 1TB of SSD raid 0 and 9TB standard HDD for OVER 9000GB!! -inappropriate meme reference-.
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I wouldn't raid samsung evos.
EVOS are more prone to failure, their warranty is lower than their pro counterparts for a reason. Intel is considerably slower, but they are known as being the most reliable drives out there.
do you need 1TB of ssd space, if you are already getting external drives to cover storage space