Comments on: What Is the Best Hard Drive?

By: Lucian Ilea

Lucian Ilea — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:44:10 +0000

well it matters how much your data matters to you:)
you can have games and the operating system windows
or you have something like the mayan calendar and various tech age calculations on Earth running on Kali linux
not used for hacking bank accounts:)
surely,0.1 years average life for the troublesome 6 TB Western Digital Drive is troubling indeed
but…life goes on
you should buy only capacities with come at powers of 2:)))

By: Cole Hernandez

Cole Hernandez — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 23:22:00 +0000

Thank you Brian for this great review of Hard Drive, I think the best on now is HGST Deskstar 7K3000

By: ghulam ali

ghulam ali — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:02:00 +0000

This is great information and valuable for all of us who are choosing hard drives, thank you for sharing it! I have a couple of questions: 1. Do you consider the power requirements of the different hard drives? For example, the HGST (Hitachi) drives take as much power at rest as the Western Digital Red drives use in use. This has a cost impact as well and thus may make the Western Digital drives the bargain choice not to mention the additional benefits of running drives that can be expected to run cooler and the resulting decline in cooling costs. 2. Seagate claims a given number of “Power-on hours” for their drives and the number seems quite low to me for drives used in a NAS setting. This seems to imply that while short term failure rates may be acceptable, long term failure may be premature as compared to other alternatives. Do you have any sense of the relevance of this issue?

Finally, would you mind if I post an excerpt of this on my blog with a link to this page and proper attribution to BackBlaze? I’d also like to post it on some of the photographer specific websites that I use if that’s ok.

Ghulam Ali

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By: UltraDataRecovery

UltraDataRecovery — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 03:03:00 +0000

This is a great article. Very informative specially when buying bulk hard drives.

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By: HDDmag Admin

HDDmag Admin — Tue, 24 May 2016 12:02:00 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. Considering the fact that these drives are not ment to run 24/7, they are working quite good.

By: HDDmag Admin

HDDmag Admin — Tue, 24 May 2016 09:03:00 +0000

In reply to Chris Williams. Western Digital also is quite good and with bigger capacity

By: Tsais

Tsais — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:20:00 +0000

In reply to Justin Alberts. They talked about this some other place, basically, enterprise class drives would make it hard to turn a profit in their business, and since their setup can handle drive failures without loosing data, the failure rates of non-enterprise drives were less costly than paying the price of enterprise class drives.

By: Tsais

Tsais — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:16:00 +0000

In reply to Bjorn Wikstrom.

I have Samsung drives, where not a single one failed and they’re going on 10 years old…
None of my HGST Touro (external Deskstars) drives failed either, but they’re less than 5 years old.