Midghost Posted April 11, 2018 Report Share Posted April 11, 2018 Hey,i am thinking of buying Seagate barracuda 1tb for downloads and storage because they are cheap to buy and are they reliable does someone has any experience with these hdd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted April 11, 2018 Report Share Posted April 11, 2018 Seagate Barracuda's are the worst drive on the market. Hell the 3TB Barracuda's had something like an 80% failure rate ~5 years ago. I stick to Western Digital drives only. Though I hear HGST drives do extremely well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midghost Posted April 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2018 what about Seagate Nas and sshd drives. which wd hdd should i buy from purple,red or gold for storage or for my secondary storage on my desktop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeutralHatred Posted April 11, 2018 Report Share Posted April 11, 2018 As Koby said, Barracudas have the highest failure rates. However, lately Seagate has been doing better. They also started a data recovery service on their drives for ones that do fail. I do prefer Western Digital (WD) and HGST, the latter also being part of Western Digital. Red is their RAID/NAS drives. For what you want, especially considering such small storage, Blue should be sufficient. However, if you want larger drives for reliable storage, RAID 1 a couple reds for redundancy and reliability. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midghost Posted April 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2018 Thank you guys i go with western digital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garo7 Posted April 12, 2018 Report Share Posted April 12, 2018 22 hours ago, Koby said: Seagate Barracuda's are the worst drive on the market. Hell the 3TB Barracuda's had something like an 80% failure rate ~5 years ago. I stick to Western Digital drives only. Though I hear HGST drives do extremely well. Absolutely agree! I rebooted my PC last year only to find that 1 of 3 x 3TB Barracuda's no longer existed in this dimension. Dead dead dead, and after only 1 year in very well cooled system too! Lost years of data instantly. But really I lost it when I purchased those lousy drives. Yeah, I would say go Western Digital Black or Gold. Also, I think that Hitachi may have actually been recently rated as the most reliable SATA III HDDs. But WD seems pretty solid. I am slowly replacing my Baracuda's with WD Black's. Meantime wincing a lot every time I reboot wondering about the 6 TB of remaining data. lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midghost Posted April 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Sorry for your lost data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garo7 Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Ah, thanks. S'okay... these things happen. I should have been more careful in buying those I realize now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeutralHatred Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 On 4/11/2018 at 8:16 PM, Garo7 said: Absolutely agree! I rebooted my PC last year only to find that 1 of 3 x 3TB Barracuda's no longer existed in this dimension. Dead dead dead, and after only 1 year in very well cooled system too! Lost years of data instantly. But really I lost it when I purchased those lousy drives. Yeah, I would say go Western Digital Black or Gold. Also, I think that Hitachi may have actually been recently rated as the most reliable SATA III HDDs. But WD seems pretty solid. I am slowly replacing my Baracuda's with WD Black's. Meantime wincing a lot every time I reboot wondering about the 6 TB of remaining data. lol Heat isn't necessarily the reason drives fail. Other than obvious shocks to it, hard drive disks are mechanic parts. Over time, they will need to be replaced; it is inevitable. However, failing early is just poor design. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garo7 Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Sure. But barring any other environmental or usage issues (such you mention rough handling), which in my case there were none after I received them, heat is the most commonly ignored and prevalent cause of excessive wear and early failure in HDDs. I was merely indicating it wasn't a big factor in this case. This particular model though has had a really terrible failure rate over the entire industry from personal to enterprise use. In some cases up to 30%. Basically its just a terrible piece of hardware. There was a class action law suit pending at one time even. I have read that their new designs are better but I would be very reluctant to go with Seagate again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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