1 TB or 2 TB HD?

[dawgtuff]

Which is more reliable/faster? And what brand should I buy?

 

[tweakboy]

If your going to put porn on it and a lot of videos then get 2TB . If your not going to store porn movies 50,999 thousand of them then get a 1TB ,, you will never use up all the space I bet you.

Best brand is Western Digital
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and still going strong I might add.
Soo buy a WDC Black 1TB Buy it from Amazon and here it is only 88.99 free shipping.
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digit...7MV0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1288303367&sr=8-2

 

[C1]

Bought a couple of those Hitachi 2TB drives & really appreciate the breathing room. I mean just the other day generating a couple church projects (pano photos, graphical billboard experiments, & some event coverages) blew away two Gig in one sitting.

Remember, for openers you dont get 2TB - it's 1.8K something GB. The other thing is that you should always allow some reserve on a drive (eg, 10&#37 for recycle bin etc. So there you are - a 2TB rated drive is effective 1.5TB practical useable.

Tell you this, 500GB seems like nothin'.

 

[tweakboy]

Its a less reliable drive the 2TB because it has more platters ,,, more mechanical movement more prone to injury... losing sectors and hd dyijng.

 

[ImDonly1]

I just bought a samsung spinpoint f3 1tb. For the 1tb drives, it seems to get the best reviews, as in it is the fastest.

It is also going for a low price, I think.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2115946 read the second post.

 

[shortylickens]

Three 1TB drives.
1 for prons.
1 for Warez.
1 for LolCats.

My cat drive is almost full.

 

[jjmIII]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2115946

Either drive in that thread would be perfect...just depends how much space you need. Hint: you can never have enough, especially at these prices.

 

[AstroGuardian]

Its a less reliable drive the 2TB because it has more platters ,,, more mechanical movement more prone to injury... losing sectors and hd dyijng.

Wrong! The platters are placed on a single motor and are fixed among themselves. The same is true for the heads. The electronics are all about the same. So no measurable difference in reliability.
Prone to injury? Losing sectors? There are no such things as those...

 

[exar333]

Wrong! The platters are placed on a single motor and are fixed among themselves. The same is true for the heads. The electronics are all about the same. So no measurable difference in reliability.
Prone to injury? Losing sectors? There are no such things as those...

True, but the 1 and 1.5TB drives appear to be more reliable than most current 2TB drives. Could just be the design, or something else. I am a little suspect of many of the current 2TB offerings. DOA units seem to abound.

 

[AstroGuardian]

True, but the 1 and 1.5TB drives appear to be more reliable than most current 2TB drives. Could just be the design, or something else. I am a little suspect of many of the current 2TB offerings. DOA units seem to abound.

I have the same impression. Might be that firmwares are fairly new.

 

[pjkenned]

I don't worry much about DOA or early failures... because those get weeded out during burn-in before the drive is put in-service.

Those Hitachi's are pretty awesome. I'm running probably over two dozen at this point and have had one fail all year. Plus, unlike WD Green/ Blue/ Black drives they work really well with all of the Areca, LSI and Adaptec controllers I own.

Personally, 2x 1TB drives is like $110. Get those and RAID 1. Or spend like $200 and RAID 1 the 2TB drives. At these prices, might as well get two drives, burn them in, and then have redundancy in place for WHEN one fails (either 1TB or 2TB).

WD has the easiest RMA process (along with Seagate). Hitachi's RMA process I have only done once this year and was not as good, but still was easy.

My personal recommendation is not to ask which drive is more reliable, but rather look at all drives as unreliable and prepare accordingly.

 

[Juddog]

I'm pretty happy with my Western Digital Black edition 2 TB that I just picked up off of newegg. I see that people gave it negative eggs because there have been a few DOA units, but that's something that all hard drives experience from my experience. Just test the drive when you get it, and if it works you're golden.

 

[Barfo]

My 2 TB WD Green died three days after arrival...that's all

 

[jtvang125]

I bought 12 1.5TB Hitachi drives for a file server. No DOA and still running strong.

 

[amanoai]

My 2 TB WD Green died three days after arrival...that's all

Where did you buy it from? Bare drive or retail?

 

[Barfo]

Where did you buy it from? Bare drive or retail?

Bare, from Newegg.

 

[Obsoleet]

Hitachi is #1 right now for reliability.. they aren't using cutting edge designs. Old platter (many platter) designs and old firmware (no 512e). These are also a favorite of hardware RAID guys as they support TLER. Can't go wrong with Hitachi.

If Hitachi didn't exist, I'd go for a WD. No TLER command support on consumer drives, and many have 512e (512byte sector in software, 4k in hardware, and performance issues can arise).

Samsung is a neck and neck choice with WD. I personally am not a WD fan, and WD has overall done a good job lately.. given their experience and Samsung's relative lack of, I'd go WD over Sammy for now.



Reliability= Hitachi
Cool n quiet (yet still reliable)= WD

My personal favorites are the 1TB Hitachi (2platters) and the 2TB WD Green (3platters). I use HDDs as externals only and don't recommend they are put into an actual system any longer (that's where SSDs go).

Personally, I'm a Seagate devotee, have been for 20 years. But right now and the past few years they've genuinely been inferior to WD (their hated enemy).

Seagate will be back on everyone's list soon, I'm sure of it.. but avoid for now.