Who makes the best hdds nowadays (1 Viewer)

[cosjobs]

I want to upgrade my desktop to a 3 TB HDD.

They are awfully inexpensive now with a SATA III and 7200 rpms for about 125

The issue is reliability. I'd rather pay more now and not have a crash and data recovery issue in the future, but its been a long time since I built a system. What are the more reliable brands/models?

 

[Polish Hammer]

Those were all rated in 2009.

Here is a recent study.

 

[Phil Elliott]

Those were all rated in 2009.

Here is a recent study.

good catch.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

Those were all rated in 2009.

Here is a recent study.

Weird to publish results of a study when they were using refurb'd drives from Seagate and new drives from the rest. I don't suspect that would have changed their high-level takeaways , but seems shady nonetheless.

 

[Osaurus]

Hitachi? Really? Makers of the DeathStar? WD has always been reliable, but now Thai made HDDs are back so that's a positive for all manufacturers and consumers IMO

 

[TLEF316]

I always use western digital in my builds. Never had an issue

 

[3C's]

Yes Hitachi. They make solid drives. Seagate is solid. WD is fine. I work for a large server manufacturer and we use Hitachi and Seagate almost exclusively.

 

[Maelstrom]

Get a copy of Spinrite (hard drive maintenance and data repair tool) and run it occasionally. It'll help whatever drive you get last longer by making sure bad sectors are marked as such and not used (in short, I'm sure there's a more technical reason it helps drives).

 

[Mister CIA]

I'm kind of a novice at some of this, but if losing a hard drive represents a hardship of sorts to you, would your best option be to use clonezilla (free) and take a snapshot of your entire hard drive and copy it to an external drive? Maybe get two external drives and clone it weekly/monthly to alternate devices.

I might be testing this concept soon. I'm refurbishing an old PC for my son and I plan to clone it before handing it over so if/WHEN he does something ill-advised with it, I can just overwrite it with the original image.

 

[Mr. Ected]

Always been happy with WD drives, now their drive systems (Specifically the Cloud NAS), they suck.