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Why would you buy another Seagate? Do you think it's ok for drives to fail in less than 5 yrs?
 
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WD is good.. but I use Hitachi Ultrastar's ( HUA723020ALA641). They are 2TB and still available NEW for $44.50 each from GoHardDrive (ebay item 111253784610)
"Enterprise Grade hard drive is the world’s first 7200 RPM hard drive rated at 2.0 million hours MTBF."
I have 5 running in 3 dif machines, some since 2013.. No issues and still showing 100% health, they're workhorse drives. WD bought them out in 2012 & Newegg also has them @ $54.99..
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=1Z4-0005-00041
 
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Burpo said:
Why would you buy another Seagate? Do you think it's ok for drives to fail in less than 5 yrs?
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I have a Hitachi with only 15621 power on hours with 34 reallocated sectors (about 4 months ago it had 2 reallocated sectors).

Not sure when it is going to die, but this drive is not that old.

P.S. I would have cloned the disk already.....but I can't because it is storing copy once (ie, DRM protected) cable TV recordings on Windows Media Center.
 
I have several dozen Seagates in my three unRAID setups that have been working great for four, five, and six years with no issues. I also have a couple dozen WD drives with similar ages in my unRAIDs. Both brands have been reliable in my use.
 
thanks to all can you tell me if ssd 240gb will be enough for windows 10 os and battlefield 3 game only all other stuff will go to hard disk thanks
 
tushardehra said:
thanks to all can you tell me if ssd 240gb will be enough for windows 10 os and battlefield 3 game only all other stuff will go to hard disk thanks
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Yes but i dont purchase the 512gb version because i need the space. the 512gb is usually a good amount faster than the 240gb version which is also faster than teh 128gb.. Always good to have a little extra and not use a SSD near capacity. but 240gb is plently
 
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