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Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)20:30
No.25118398

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Anonymous 05/26/12(Sat)20:30 No.25118398

Sup /g/, are there any 2TB drives on the market that are not slow as fuck/brittle as fuck and also don't cost a gorillion dollars?

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)20:54
No.25118810

Anonymous No.25118810 05/26/12(Sat)20:54 No.25118810

Please respond

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)20:56
No.25118841

Anonymous No.25118841 05/26/12(Sat)20:56 No.25118841

I have a pair of Hitachi Deskstars. They have been reliable thus far.

I run them in a mirror.

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)20:56
No.25118850

Anonymous No.25118850 05/26/12(Sat)20:56 No.25118850

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>Deadpool and his grenade.jpg

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:04
No.25118996

Anonymous No.25118996 05/26/12(Sat)21:04 No.25118996

>>25118398
Spinpoints

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:05
No.25119020

Anonymous No.25119020 05/26/12(Sat)21:05 No.25119020

>>25118996
Seagate bought samsung's HDD division. The spinpoint brand will be gone next product cycle

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:06
No.25119049

Anonymous No.25119049 05/26/12(Sat)21:06 No.25119049

>>25119020

Does this mean all Spinpoints currently made are shitty?

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:08
No.25119075

Anonymous No.25119075 05/26/12(Sat)21:08 No.25119075

>>25119049
if you think that Seagate HDDs are shitty.

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:09
No.25119097

Anonymous No.25119097 05/26/12(Sat)21:09 No.25119097

>>25119075

Never used one, are they?

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:09
No.25119098

Anonymous No.25119098 05/26/12(Sat)21:09 No.25119098

>>25119049
Customer support is yes.

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:10
No.25119117

Anonymous No.25119117 05/26/12(Sat)21:10 No.25119117

>>25118996
>>25119020
WELL SHIT. Oh well.

I have a bunch of Western Digital 1-2 TB HDDs. None have failed in 3 years of service and they seem decent quality enough. Should really check how if or how many bad sectors I have on each so I don't have any surprises.

Fortunately I have a wooden desk to knock on, thank you very much.

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:11
No.25119139

Anonymous No.25119139 05/26/12(Sat)21:11 No.25119139

>>25119117
I don't like WD consumer drives because I'm obsessive and run all my drives in a mirror

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:12
No.25119155

Anonymous No.25119155 05/26/12(Sat)21:12 No.25119155

>>25119097
I bought a used one and it was a mistake. Lots of shit wrong with it. Apparently lots of users have problems with seagates.
It still works, for now though...

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:12
No.25119166

Anonymous No.25119166 05/26/12(Sat)21:12 No.25119166

Western Digital and Seagate are now the only choices? Well then that makes it a no brainer. Either buy Western Digital or enjoy your hard drive breaking after a few months.

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:13
No.25119181

Anonymous No.25119181 05/26/12(Sat)21:13 No.25119181

>>25118398
Western Digital. Just don't get the Green versions of their hard drives.

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:14
No.25119188

Anonymous No.25119188 05/26/12(Sat)21:14 No.25119188

>>25119139
Yeah, I can understand that. Still, quality ain't bad at all from my experience, and I don't care about RAIDing them or anything since I have too much data for it to be affordable, though I'm tempted to pick up a NAS.

Instead, however, I have a script that I run once so often that throws the current directory tree into a text file on all of my hard drives, so if one dies I know exactly what shit I need to replace. Good enough for me.

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:14
No.25119196

Anonymous No.25119196 05/26/12(Sat)21:14 No.25119196

I have one Seagate, a 500GB from back before they acquired Maxtor. Ever since Seagate bought Maxtor, their drives have sucked.

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:14
No.25119198

Anonymous No.25119198 05/26/12(Sat)21:14 No.25119198

>>25119166
Toshiba still makes drives

There is a huge land grab going on right now
Seagate took samsung, WD picked up hitachi, Seagate grabbed lacie

I wonder what is next

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:14
No.25119199

Anonymous No.25119199 05/26/12(Sat)21:14 No.25119199

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>>25119181

>mfw I checked prices and a 2TB WD Caviar Black is 280 fucking dollars where I live

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:15
No.25119217

Anonymous No.25119217 05/26/12(Sat)21:15 No.25119217

>>25119188
The more data you have, the more important things like redundancy and backup are.

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:15
No.25119223

Anonymous No.25119223 05/26/12(Sat)21:15 No.25119223

>>25119181
What's wrong with Green anyway? I have one 1 TB one and it's fine, albeit about as fast as I paid for.

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:18
No.25119276

Anonymous No.25119276 05/26/12(Sat)21:18 No.25119276

>>25119223
There isn't anything wrong with green drives.

There is a problem with using them as your primary HDD, as their performance is teh suck in such an application.

As a data drive that you infrequently access, they are great.

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:18
No.25119277

Anonymous No.25119277 05/26/12(Sat)21:18 No.25119277

I've got a 2tb WD caviar drive. Cost me around 120 (cad). Im only using it for media and it does the job quick enough...For the price of a black drive you could get a small ssd and a 2tb drive if you shop around

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:21
No.25119317

Anonymous No.25119317 05/26/12(Sat)21:21 No.25119317

>>25119217
I'd buy more HDDs, no problem despite the cost, but I'm running out of internal SATA ports on my mobo, despite having a shit ton.

Just to back my shit up I'd need 2-3 2 TB HDDs. No clue if my WD Greens/Blacks are RAID-viable in the first place, or how to construct said array and add drives to it.

>>25119276
Exactly why I have a WD Black as my primary drive and a bunch of WD Greens for data storage.

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:22
No.25119333

Anonymous No.25119333 05/26/12(Sat)21:22 No.25119333

>>25119223
Their greens are just the lower tier parts left over from making blacks. You either get lucky or you don't.

I had a 2TB green that died on me after a month. I had to immediately stuff it in the freezer and order a black to replace it. When the black came in, I popped the green into my SATA hotswap bay and put an icepack on top, then I quickly transferred the entire contents over. I lost a lot of data in the end, but it was all replaceable. I then sent the Green to WD for warranty replacement and have it sitting on a shelf. I plan on using it to back up my very important rare shit that I wouldn't be able to re-torrent, but I keep procrastinating. I am unsure whether I truly want to use a green as my redundant backup given their propensity to die at random.

Anonymous
05/26/12(Sat)21:23
No.25119364

Anonymous No.25119364 05/26/12(Sat)21:23 No.25119364

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>mfw I have 3.5 TB of data and nothing to back it up on
>And I only have one hard drive bay left in my case