Huh, My seagate 240gb hard drive of 15 years old still works surprisingly. Even weirder is the fact it sometimes makes a single beep sound during load, its done that for 13 years lol...
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Is this going to help give me more storage on my pc? Im like 80 gb off from a download i need and i cleaned soo much from my disc and still dont have enough storage. Hoping buying this would help?
@@arzufbkz6099 they are also good for their pricing but ya WD is reliable. I have used my Toshiba 1 TB since early 2016 with a run time over 39k+ hours. It's just recently showing its age and issues. I am going to change it this week.
I also want to add that in work space condition such as bioinformatic, we write tb worth of data every single day(small lab). It means given most of the ssd are 150tbw or less it will only las so long before it fails on $80,000 PC. This is why all indivuals in our lab are given external HDD to work. Long live HDD.
Get a 250 GB SSD for all the important stuff and then clone it to a 2 TB Western Digital Black. That way you’ll have an active backup without the problem of restoring from an image, not that having an image as a secondary backup is a bad thing at all.
I'll get a 500GB SSD with 2-4 TB of storage (videos and photos). still want to keep all of my games on the SSD. Don't know why you would need a gaming HDD except if you're on a budget.
In my case, the opposite happened, my Toshiba main drive on my Toshiba Laptop died in about 6 months while my Seagate Barracuda is still alive until now after two years, although I admit, that Toshiba drive was really put into huge torment and torture before it died since sometimes, it took me 15 continues hours of rendering without stopping and that poor thing is like spinning for 15 hours per day continuously for about 6 months.
My server has been downloading and uploading Linux Torrents 24/7 for 4 years now, and Im using WD RED and Toshiba Drives. I did shut the system down for about 20 minutes in March last year, but other than that, they have NEVER stopped being accessed. Would NEVER bother with Seagate again.
Best Overall: Seagate 2TB FireCuda 7200 Best Budget, WD Blue 1TB WD Blue 1TB SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch Desktop Hard Drive 7200 RPM Runner-Up, Best Overall: Seagate 3TB BarraCuda Seagate 3TB BarraCuda 7200 RPM Best for Cache Storage: Toshiba X300 4TB 7200 RPM If you have Money to spend go with Western digital 4TB Black -7200 RPM The 4TB Black cover with a 5 years warranty
Mountana Berry I’m going the western black 4tb went with the western black 1tb high performance nvme and had no issues year later I trust western digital it’s the best I ever had!
@@doubleglaze7979 WD Black 8TB Performance Internal Hard Drive 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5 - WD8001FZBX This is a Super fast HDD and the best you can get for Storage and for Gaming
11:33 I actually wrote a review for that exact Toshiba model (MQ01ABD100 at 500gb), because one came in my HP Laptop 17BS0XX. It throttled to 100% usage while at idle and gave me nothin but trouble; so I upgraded to a 2TB Seagate FireCuda (2.5" at 5,400rpm) and the problems instantly went away - I'd recommend dodgin that model, if you're able to do so.
Drop that extra $20 and get the WD Gold. You won't be able to tell the difference when you first get them but you definitely will after 5 years. My WD Black barely lasted a year before read/write speed started dropping to SD card level. Now I can't even access my download section without my computer loading for one whole minute. Don't think you don't need an enterprise drive because you're a consumer, because enterprise drive are built to last a very long time under very harsh condition while consumer drive are built to last one or two years max, 2hr usage per day.
@@impoppy9145 Same symptoms with WD black here. Can't even format it, the speed is erratic (from ultra-slow to mega-slow), and it happened to ALL 3 of my WD BLACK drives (not at the same time). Read my comment below. WD Black is a frikkin ROBBERY!
everybody, please look into the Seagate FireCuda 2TB SSHD, it's only $74. The only downside is that it's a 2.5" but you can easily buy a bracket for $8 to make it fit like a 3.5"
TheDon _ it’s 2.5 bro I’m planning on getting one before New Years since my last one is fried... just spent the whole Christmas break without a hard drive to play a PS4 so hopefully this is good
I got toshiba 1TB x5 / 2TB x5 & seagate 1TB x3 /2TB x5 /3TB x5 All bought in 2009 for personal used STORAGE , that time got super sale 40% off on my local store HDD , still working till now 2021 , checked all still GOOD condition , used it for storage instead of gaming. For gaming i used NVME for now blazing fast.
anyone that is looking for speed out of a hd wont even look sideways at a HDD. hdd's are really only good for large capacity reliable storage and until a large capacity optical disk burner is available on the market hdd's wont disappear (looking at you blueray and hddvd)
I've been running a 2tb raid 0 of wd blacks for the last 6 years. It's rare to see a game that loads noticibly faster on my ssd's, and they're rarely over 50% capacity. Loads of games use a single thread to decompress assets, so the cpu becomes the bottleneck. I recommend defraggler btw.
@@Zigmmaaaaarrssss no normal pc, i brought ssd crucial from this time, lost 5%lifetime in 4months. But still running windows on ssd i like enough fast to never use hdd more, maybe for files. I can reccomend samsung
Also I would like to mention that even if you are on a budget consider that investing in better parts will save you a ton of money sure there will be faulty parts but even their manufacturers are willing to help but going with the best your budget allows will help you save good amounts of money to the point that you will start looking at what you need later in the future rather than what you can afford here's what I did M.2- for windows and other important files or programs SSD- for sure some games or programs for video rendering or 3d modeling as it's faster reads and writes will be beneficial for fast working ppl And HDD's for videogames or recording and last but not least have a back up it's very sad to have a beautiful rig and then something unexpected happens and you are left in the dark it's depressing
If you are going to buy a HDD, go big or go home. The bigger the drive, the faster the speeds you generally get, especially on the sectors located at the very edge of the physical platters. But if you just care about speeds, get a ssd.
I'd imagine the more you write to the drive the slower it gets, so especially big drives aren't good unless they're by high quality manufactures in high quality product lines.
@@Turtle_God You don't seem to understand. The bigger than drive, the smaller the bits on the drive, but you can read the same physical locations at the same speeds. So if you have more bits at a physical location and you can access it physically at the same speed, you increase the logical transfer speeds. Understand that you need A LOTS of bits to slightly increase speeds though. But 2 and 12TB does a difference. Quality is not really the question, although i doubt you would cheap out on what holds your stuff.
Western Digital 4TB WD Gold Enterprise Class Internal Hard Drive - 7200 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" is the way i went long live the power of gold!
Here i am, getting scammed to buy wd purple 2 tb when i'm still a noob, but it's already 5 years and still at 100% health, i mainly used it for Steam library, so yeah, lucky me, i think XD
@@bmhater1283 CCTVs don't need fast drives... Most desktop drives are 7200rpm while CCTV drives are 5400, they're designed to run 24/7 but they're slow af
@@aurasushii3676 Just don't open any hard drives at home. Only failed ones, which you can't revive. If you're taking apart a working 100/100 condition HDD at home, you run the risk of killing it, because their plates can't bear with dust, air, and microorganisms
Do they still do the Raptors? I remember when they brought the 36 and 72GB models out... I got myself 2x36GB and RAIDED them... They were mental quick!
I love SEAGATE HDD AND TOSHIBA HDD BUT I HAVE VERY BAD EXPERIENCE WITH WESTERN D HDD IF I REALLY TRUST SO I DO TRUST ON SEAGATE AND TOSHIBA BUT NEVER ON WD HDD
I waited for the Toshiba X300 7200RPM 6TB drive to go on sale , because unlike the 4TB/5TB versions the 6TB has a 256mb cache and wow is it impressive and it's also nice not worrying if it's going to fail just because I push it hard , unlike WD and Seagate which never last very long , well for me anyways.
I've never really heard anything controversial about Seagate HDDs. They're pretty much toe-to-toe in popularity with WD, but they offer longer warranties than WD. As far as I have ever heard and read, their reliability has never been questioned.
@@Vysair honestly dont know, but now after i got a 2 TB WD and it started having tbe same problem, idk anymore what the problem is, i tried everything except new motherboard so it very possibly might have been my pc
@@Vysair i switched sata cables but now that you mention it, it could be the PSU, i dont even remember which one i have, i think its pretty old, ill upgrade that since i dont wanna throw away 2 TB of space, thank you for the help my friend
I can't recomend a Seagate Barracuda 2GB not as a place to have your games on and load the games from there -the 5400 rpm makes it suffer -but i cant tell how other perform since this is the only I bought the last 10 years. I regrett not buying Firecuda which has 7200rpm and a small ssd part as cache ( but im not shure how it works -heard only windows use it )
@@mdrahman6732 I can agree with my experience of 5 years building PCs for Customers that Barracuda's do have a higher tendency to fail although it's still not horrible as some make it out to be compared to Western Digital Black. Seagate Barracuda's are nice if you can't spare anymore money for a Western Digital Black HDD. The failure rate for Barracuda's is pretty random when it comes age. I think Quality Control is to blame here for the Barracuda's failing. I'll have to pull some old Customer Orders that had Seagate Barracuda's in them and then see how many came back with Storage Failures.
That's what I have, but put games on the SSD with OS and use WD Black as its backup! Plus a 2TB WD Black for pics, audio/e books and movies. Plus external HD to back up media. Plus extra Google account to backup pics and family videos in the cloud. I may be paranoid.
I wouldn't put any hdd in a portable device. The most reliable are prone to corrupt data if writing while jarred. Will also cause excessive wear if the heads aren't completely parked while subject to noticeable vibrations or jarring. SSDs are immune to such.
Western Digital Black died after 17,000 hours. Which, is a lot. But my Western Digital Green is fine and dandy after 30,000 hours. Spinning at 7,200 rpm for 17,000 is a lot more wear and tear than 5,400 for 30,000. True, overtime the black has done more rotations, one drive is 6-8 years old, the other is 3-4. Either one is great, but if your buying for bulk storage, go with blue/green. If your looking for active storage, using it for games, lightroom etc, go black. And for your system, and for stuff you need a lot, go ssd. Samsung is the best, but any will do.
I refuse to go Seagate agian. Lost way too much data to Seagate over the years. I have 8 TB worth of WD Black storage, and although they're a little on the louder end for drives, my data has been flawless all round.
What do you mean by that? I'm about to build my first pc and was gonna get a seagate baracuda 1tb for my hard drive. Does it not last that long? If so what would you recommend for longevity I'm gonna have this pc for at least 5 years
@@Unknown-si8yx I've been building computers since I was about 9 years old, and I'm currently 24 now. Throughout the last 15 years, I've owned many drives of almost all makes and models; many new and many used. I've found that when it came to longevity and data loss, Seagates were by far the worst. Eventually, the drives just cease to register at all, or will gradually corrupt segments without warning, making it a nightmare to retrieve faulty data. Out of all drives I've ever owned, modern Western Digital drives are hands down the most reliable.
@@luxurydevilcr9944 as far as I'm aware (there could be a loophole that I don't know about), your game will run off of the drive that has its primary installed location. So if it's on your HDD, it will run at your HDD's speed. A 7200 RPM HDD will boot, run and load a lot better and faster than 5400 RPM HDD, but has nothing compared to an SSD for efficiency per second. SSD will always dominate HDD in terms of speed and efficiency, because it's flash storage. HDD's are mechanical, and you have to wait for the moving parts to communicate with one another. If you want sheer speed with load times and efficiency, use SSD for gaming. However, per GB, a Solid State Drive is far more expensive so chances are, you won't have the space for many games to be worth it, and the write life is much smaller than a Hard Disk Drive, so you risk losing all of your data a lot sooner than a HDD. if you want raw storage instead, for media and general files, opt for a higher end HDD. Always remember, if you buy cheap, you almost always get cheap. Investing a little bit more with technology is always a smarter move, because in a the longhaul, you'll be saving money. You usally have to make sacrificies one way or another. Do you want raw efficinecy for a select few games? Or do you want the ability to play many, many games at the cost of a few seconds load time, without having to uninstall and constantly create new writes to your SSD?
Everyone keeps saying Barracuda have high failure rates, but that's all I personally use, and I have never once experienced this. I have 4 rigs, and many backup HDDs, and some of these HDDs are more than 7 yrs old (yes I use them regularly), and they all run great still. I've had to repair many many computers, and every hdd I've had to replace were WD, and Hitachi. Mostly WD. This is why I never once personally used WD. Why change when I've never had a Seagate die on me right?
Sarys both my seagate drives have failed on me and I believe this is because of the smr shit they use now the older ones are much faster which is what you might have.
I was surprised to see that she said the X300 was expensive. You can get a 8TB model on amazon for $200CAD which is about $150USD. That doesn't seem very expensive.
in years ive had all WD drives crash on me for no reason whatsoever,they'd just crash at random when either booting, copying stuff or just even when going from idle to in use. on both 2.5 inch ones and 3.5 inch ones and even external ones this has all happened. after0 i switched to seagete compute drives i never ever had any problems again. not sure what this "seagate prone to fail" bs is but i assure you even my old IDE seagate 20gb drive still works fine while its over 20 years old xD and that thing has seen a lot of stuff, including 4 drops of the table (it has 2 bumps in it) xD
@@sideskroll if you work withs pcs for a living, you certainly dont have a "complete opposite" experience, but you actually have a somewhat even mix between them, as thy statistically are about equal in failure rates. from my personal, given, quite limited, experience i only had 2 WD hdds fail so far, my 4 seagates are still going strong after about 10 and 6 years respectively.
@@lordofnothing. Yes. And TOSHIBAS 2.5 drives are basically garbage. Literally. Any time somebody brought me a laptop with a failling hdd I called "toshiba" and it was. Their laptops are grear on the other hand.
I bought a toshiba because I heard their reliable and it failed quicker than my seagates. Seagates don't fall out of raid so I had 2 seagate barracudas in a raid 0 setup and the toshiba alone as my backup and it failed first. so I formatted my single seagate and it's my gaming hard drive. I have a samsung ssd for os and will try a WD hard drive next but disappointed in both seagate and toshiba. Here is hoping third time is the charm.
I'm watching this video because my Seagate barracuda is broken and I'm planning to buy a new one which is never a seagate again. Its already 2 times within 2.5 years and first time they gave me a replacement which is a recertified one which i felt was very very slow boot time is sooo huge and finally crashed a year latter.. i guess I'm going to toshiba if i available. And gud video btw
No mention of the clicking nonsense that is driving everyone crazy including the new blue models. The blacks have tons of shocking reviews on newegg in the USA and the Seagate ones are even worse. The days of good drives are over, im hanging on to my older models that are quiet and super reliable
Toshiba's X300 are actually very affordable in comparisson to the WDBlack. I got an older 3TB version that's been running for 5 years without issues. You can get a 6Tb x300 www.newegg.com/p/N82E16822149629?Description=x300&cm_re=x300-_-22-149-629-_-Product cheaper than a 4Tb WDBlack --www.newegg.com/p/1Z4-0002-00GE4?Description=WD%20Black&cm_re=WD_Black-_-1Z4-0002-00GE4-_-Product
i had a SSD drive - but it started to fail,just after 6 months - i will never use SSD,because of short lifespan,one of my hard drive is from 2010 - still works as a backup.
My seagate for my ps4 pro died on me (rocket league did address the fact they had a very bad bug that froze and crashed hard drives on ps4 pros specifically so idk if that bug or the failure rate is to blame) but they did send me one under warranty for replacement, and that came dead on arrival (it was a refurb) so they sent me a brand new one. It has since crashed in my ps4 pro again but didn’t die like the past one
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