Is the old rule of thumb (seagate drives = best, but reliability issues for the big drives) still true? Seagate makes the best hardware at the consumer level, but, b. above a certain capacity (?
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That is no rule of thumb I have ever heard in my 15 years in IT. Seagate/Maxtor makes up the 'lower tier' of drive brands. Hitachi/Samsung are slightly more reliable. WD is still reliability king. Even if you get a good Seagate/Maxtor drive they are prone to fail after a few years, right after the warranty expires. The large capacity drive firmware issues they've been having this last year or so has just sullied their reputation even further and the kind of bugs they've had recently in fully released firmware is inexcusable. Seagate has recently earned their rep as the bottom rung hard drive supplier firmly and deservedly and that by a country mile.
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I Sorry, but I haven't Lacie Rugged, I have Seagate and Toshiba and is very nice to both.
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I don't know. The most I have used in mine is 2 1.5 TH Seagate hard drives.
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Newegg says 3 years parts/labor. After searching for an hour I couldn't find this on Seagate's website. You'd think they'd be bragging about it on billboards since practically everyone else is down to 1 year (and wouldn't surprise me if they all got rid of a warranty altogether and made people buy at their own wallet's peril).
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I use both WD and Seagate for storage - I have a Blue Face WD10 EARS model, I've had that for about 7 years, I abuse it daily. On my other system, I bought a low-speed (5400 rpm?) Seagate ST1000DL - Which got some nasty reviews on Amazon - But I've had that for 2 years and no trouble, it's only for storage so I don't need the speed. I don't have any SATA3 HDD's at all, I don't have any motherboards that support it. I'll have to get an Add-on Card
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I have owned MANY SANDISK drives, and none of them ever failed. I can tell you that thumb drives DO fail, especially the cheap ones. So, if you value your data, and don't want to lose it, spend the money on a SANDISK.
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I'm going to only answer this from the perspective of a personal opinion. I have never owned a DROBO older models or newer models. However Many of the folks I know that have owned them don't see to be going back to them as they expand. I have at least 6 different TB drives from LaCie. They have been pretty reliable all things considered. It's what I'll use in the future and what I recommends to friends. If they start failing on me which all drives seem to do sooner or later I might change. The Lacie 5 appears to be fairly easy to upgrade or change drives out. I like having that option though I haven't used it yet.
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For years I have been purchasing both Seagate and Western Digital for system builds (they are the only two brands of mechanical hard drives I will use), although I have bought many more Seagate drives. The reason for that is because I seem to find better pricing on Seagate drives, which is the reason for my personal opinion: Go with whichever of the two has the best price per similar spec (transfer speed, cache size, etc.); they both manufacture high quality, dependable products that don't break the bank.
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Don't waste your time and money on 10k drive. Use a solid state drive produced by one of the major manufacturers I have used Intel and Samsung with no problems with either. Another manufacturer to look into would be Crucial as they have been dealing with memory for a very long time and that is all a SSD is, which a very large piece of memory. I will be using Crucial on my next test build for my next line of business systems.
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Hi it's a bit confusing, and hard to figure out who you are ordering from on these drives. Did not buy mine from Oceanside. Might want to look at similar drives from Fry's. They have the full warranty.
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I bought 2 units with 2 Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 7200 RPM 3.5-Inch drives 7 months ago. Both of the drives have been running 24/7 non stop without any issues.
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http://www.synology.com/support/hd.php#94Here is a list of the recommended hard drives. I went by price, but any of them should work well for you. Doug
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They are both very good drives., and have the same 2 year warranty. About the only difference that I know of, is that the seagate drive is said to be an "energy saving" drive, where the western digital is said to be designed as a primary drive. If your going to use it as a storage only drive, and not for an operating system, then either one would be great. If you are going to load an operating system, I'd say go with the western digital. Unless one is way cheaper than the other. But really, you can't lose, and won't be disappointed with either drive. Good luck! ;)P.s, I just replaces my seagate 1TB, which lasted about 5years of continuous use, with another seagate, but a big ol' 2TB! They are both very good drives., and have the same 2 year warranty. About the only difference that I know of, is that the seagate drive is said to be an "energy saving" drive, where the western digital is said to be designed as a primary drive. If your going to use it as a storage only drive, and not for an operating system, then either one would be great. If you are going to load an operating system, I'd say go with the western digital. Unless one is way cheaper than the other. But really, you can't lose, and won't be disappointed with either drive. Good luck! ;)P.s,... » Read More They are both very good drives., and have the same 2 year warranty. About the only difference that I know of, is that the seagate drive is said to be an "energy saving" drive, where the western digital is said to be designed as a primary drive. If your going to use it as a storage only drive, and not for an operating system, then either one would be great. If you are going to load an operating system, I'd say go with the western digital. Unless one is way cheaper than the other. But really, you can't lose, and won't be disappointed with either drive. Good luck! ;)P.s, I just replaces my seagate 1TB, which lasted about 5years of continuous use, with another seagate, but a big ol' 2TB! « Show Less
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Currently running four 4T WD drives , Win 7, 64 bit machinr. No idea if they support boot, using all for storage with four other 2T and 4 other 1T drives. Most are Seagate.
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if you want tons of storage and ultimate reliability, use this Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE1T0BW, I just got it for a little over $500 on Amazon. if you dont want to spend that much money than I used WD Blue 1 TB Mobile Hard Drive: 2.5 Inch, 5400 RPM, SATA II, 8 MB Cache - WD10JPVT. Both seem to work fine.
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This particular drive has a very low real-world failure rate, as verified by an ongoing study by a company known as Backblaze. WD generally doesn't fair as well, though 2TB WD drives are not currently part of the study. You can see the September 2014 update from Backblaze here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/ In addition, any time you have two drives that have the same form factor (3.5" in this case) running at the same RPM (7200) and with the same cache, but one is higher capacity than the other, the higher capacity drive will almost always have higher sustained read/write rates. The reason is better areal density: more bits packed into the same space means more will pass the read/write head with every rotation of the platters. This makes higher capacity drives desirable not only for their increased storage capacity, but also increased speed. Finally, just because this drive has "NAS" written on the box, doesn't mean it's not well suited for desktop use. It's not cutting corners in this case, it's actually shooting for higher standards. NAS can be a punishing workload for drives, with lots of continuous access. Typical desktop use will be a walk in the park in comparison. In short, if you're after a reliable, speedy, high capacity drive, this is an excellent choice.
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If your looking for an opinion, I have been using 2 -- 256GBs for over 6 months to carry encrypted data and software installs to multiple computers and multiple sites. And these work great. Most people want to argue about 'speed', etc. That's not real-world, day-to-day, hard knocks use. These are for IT people or people who want to transport stuff regularly.