Most Reliable 3Tb HDD for storage.

[rana_kirti]

a question for people suggesting/using WD greens...

Are you using widdle ? Do the greens still have the 8 sec head parking ?

 

[Anteaus]

I'm using a 3TB green vanilla (4k sectors, etc). Since the drive is primarily a storage drive and is accessed infrequently it doesn't cycle very often. I haven't heard of the 8-second head parking thing but I looked it up. I don't believe my drive has this behavior as it seems to behave as it should based on my power management settings.

This problem seems to have been first reported in early 2010. I'm confident that if there was a problem the firmware would have been updated since to compensate for it.

 

[rana_kirti]

guys have to ask an important question. I'll be buying a new hdd from a brick & motor shop.

So once I take it home what is the best way to figure out/know that the New Hdd is in perfect working condition from the get go ?

Any recommended tests I can do ?

Many thanks,

Rana

 

[Anteaus]

If you want to check for piece of mind, do the slow/full format. In addition to formatting the drive, it will check for bad sectors. It will also take a long time which will help you gauge it's health. Afterward, if everything looks good, you're probably in good shape. Regardless, you should keep a backup of critical data, regardless of what harddrive you buy.

 

[fastman]

I'd put my money on one with the best warranty.

 

[rana_kirti]

how can i check the results of a full format ?

thanks

 

[rana_kirti]

bump....

 

[icanhascpu2]

I'd put my money on one with the best warranty.

Yeah because if it fails all the time its ok guys I have a warranty. No. You choose the most reliable one first then start looking at warranty. Unless it says 'none' or 'punches you in face' then get the reliable one.

 

[thelastjuju]

I'm not sure there are 3tb hard drives with solid enough track records to really deem them all that reliable.

At this point in time, I wouldn't get anything bigger than the Sammy 2TB drives, which have excellent rack records.

Rana Kirti, there are no results to analyze or anything.. if it completed the full format process, the drive is free of bad sectors and you're good to go. :thumbsup:

 

[Red Squirrel]

Any 2 3TB drive in raid 1.

 

[icanhascpu2]

'any' is bad advice.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Any drive can and will eventually fail so while some brands may be better than others, no matter what drives you go with, they should be in raid. Never put a >1TB drive stand alone if it will be used to store data. Also have good backups, for those you can use stand alone drives, as the odds of your raid array crapping out AND your backup drives is quite slim.

 

[icanhascpu2]

'Any drive can fail' goes without saying. However you still want one that has a history of not failing as often. Kind of the point of this here thread.
2 reliable drives in RAID1 > 1 reliable drive > 2 unreliable drives in RAID1 > 1 unreliable drive.