way to many wd and hitachi failures last year for us. almost every one of the 1tb 7200rpm notebook hitachi drives died at some point and they are part of wd now. we sell a boat load of seagate and almost never see one come back. im basing this one the last three years or so. hitachi drives were awesome before they were part of wd. note most of the wd failures were either green or blue drives. we saw many less black drives die. samsung was also a great drive but now they are much harder to find and have many less models then before because seagate acquired them. but seagate has added much of their tech into their own drives since then. the one seagate i would avoid altogether though are the "hybrid" drives. those do suck bad. as far as ssd goes unless you require the most budget drive i recc avoiding the cheap tlc drives. if you must go tlc get something with a good controller like the samsung evo. most of the cheaper ones have great read speeds but suck BAD when it comes to continuous writing. many use a small memory chip as a buffer but once they fill up speeds suck again. imo phison s10 is a bit better then smi, and then you have the aging sandforce but they do hold their own still against the budget drives. yes they will be faster then a hard drive but many of the budget ones just plain suck. the mushkin reactor is a very decent budget ssd we sell a ton of. and the samsung 850 series is FAR better then the 840 was. just my experience since we sell a ton of drives in pre built, custom and over the counter.
Stay away from Seagate! I had 3 that failed right after purchasing them, and 4 that has failed in the past year. I also have another that is failing right now. I will never buy another Seagate drive again! They are garbage! I would recommend Western Digital. I have not had any problems out of them.
how many drives do you go through yearly cutting edgetech? as a said seagate is for use currently (not looking past the last three years or so) honestly our most reliable brand to sell. we move over 1000 drives a year though
ocz is basically no more its just a name now. anything you buy that says ocz (ssd wise) is a toshiba product now. i have tested multiple new ocz/toshiba ssd's and other than the toshiba pro the rest were ehh at best
Are the WD black drives noisy? I'd like it to be fairly quiet. Anyone have experience with WD red drives or Seagate constellation drives for noise?
Thank you everyone for your replies. I think I will try a WD red and see how it goes. It has a three year warranty which is not as good as their black drives but it spins slower so hopefully it will be quiet and vibration free. When I'm ready to buy another SSD I think I will try one of those Mushkin Reactor drives that zfactor recommended. Lots of good reviews.
I have purchased 2 Western digital drives in the past 2 years. I purchased 3 Seagate drives from Best Buy 5 years ago, and they all failed within 2 months. I returned them, and they replaced them. One of the 3 replacements failed within a month. I returned it, and they replaced it. That's 4 Seagate drives that went bad almost immediately after purchase. At that time I was back with 3 Seagate drives. I only used them for about 3 months, and I did not use them again for about 3 years because of some health problems caused by surgery for acid reflux (long story). I stored them in an environmentally controlled storage unit in a rubber made containers surrounded in egg foam for safety. All 3 of those drives has failed over the past 2 years. So I was actually way off above. That's a total of seven that went bad with very little use. There is obviously a defect in some models of Seagate drives, or they were handled wrong before I purchased them. The last Seagate drive I own is currently failing. After it goes bad I will never purchase another Seagate drive again. I have never had a problem with Western Digital drives. I should have returned the Seagate drives for Western Digital, and I would not have gone through this hell.
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