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24 Feb 2014 04:21 - 24 Feb 2014 04:24 #34165 by Wingcmdr77
I've still got right around 100.00 in Best Buy Gift Certificates from Christmas (yes procrastinator) :blink:

Would like a few opinions on these:

This caught my eye because of price and size off SSD (the write speed is slower than my Corsair):

www.bestbuy.com/site/ssd340-256-gb-2-5-i...1300050005&cp=3&lp=5

Two Toshiba Drives (Have never owned a Toshiba Hard Drive (Usually buy Western Digital (for 5 year warranties, etc) and Corsair)

www.bestbuy.com/site/2tb-internal-serial...900050001&cp=1&lp=10

Below is a 3 Terabyte Toshiba Drive:

www.bestbuy.com/site/3tb-internal-serial...900050001&cp=1&lp=15


Appreciate the feedback!
Last edit: 24 Feb 2014 04:24 by Wingcmdr77.

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24 Feb 2014 10:41 #34166 by Plague
Since you are stuck with Bestbuy as the required location (ie. giftcard)

These would be my suggestions:

Seagate - Barracuda 2TB HD
www.bestbuy.com/site/barracuda-2tb-inter...0900050001&cp=1&lp=3

or

Samsung - 840 EVO 120GB SSD
www.bestbuy.com/site/840-evo-120gb-inter...0900050001&cp=1&lp=2
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24 Feb 2014 13:27 #34167 by Myndmelt
I gotta second Plague's suggestions here. I have a couple of the 840 Evo's from samsung and love them. Also the seagate 2tb looks to be a good drive as well.

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24 Feb 2014 14:45 #34168 by Dreyvas
Plague nailed it. Picked up a Samsung EVO SSD for my newest build and couldn't be happier.

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24 Feb 2014 14:58 #34169 by Wingless92
Since I own 4 of them I can't recommend Intel SSD's enough. The one in my server is a couple of years old and still going strong. They are the only drives that I recommend to friends and family since I have had zero problems with them.
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24 Feb 2014 15:29 #34171 by Arxon

Wingless92 wrote: Since I own 4 of them I can't recommend Intel SSD's enough. The one in my server is a couple of years old and still going strong. They are the only drives that I recommend to friends and family since I have had zero problems with them.


I have an old 80gig in my main PC and it is still running like a champ also. I think it is 5/6 years old.

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24 Feb 2014 17:23 #34172 by Wingcmdr77
I realize that Intel,Seagate, Western Digital are generally considered to be the better off the bunch.

However since no one has commented on Those Toshiba drives, I'm assuming that they arent even worth 2 cents to get an opinion. I'd not want to trust my data to a lesser brand.

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24 Feb 2014 19:07 #34173 by renegade
I sell all brands in my shop WD SG, Hitachi, Toshiba, and I have not seen any higher failure rate in any of them that I have sold.

I do see more WD failures then any other HD though.

I do not like the look of the SSD you listed. I prefer, Kingston Hyper X, Intel, or ADATA
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25 Feb 2014 09:23 #34181 by evildoer
Check out this list

Failure rates per drive mfg and model over a year published by a cloud data company.. 27000 drive sample

blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/

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25 Feb 2014 18:02 #34183 by L0rdG1gabyt3

renegade wrote: I sell all brands in my shop WD SG, Hitachi, Toshiba, and I have not seen any higher failure rate in any of them that I have sold.

I do see more WD failures then any other HD though.

Agreed here... but perhaps we see more WD failures because there are more of them out there... I see more HPs and Dells with problems, but they are the most common computers.

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25 Feb 2014 19:12 #34186 by Dreyvas

evildoer wrote: Check out this list

Failure rates per drive mfg and model over a year published by a cloud data company.. 27000 drive sample

blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/


Pretty much mirrors my experience. I've had multiple Seagates tank on me. Haven't had a WD drive fail yet and I picked up a Hitachi 4TB recently due to their low failure rates.

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25 Feb 2014 22:17 #34187 by L0rdG1gabyt3

Dreyvas wrote: Haven't had a WD drive fail yet and I picked up a Hitachi 4TB recently due to their low failure rates.

Psst.... Hitachi drives are made by WD now! ;) www.wdc.com/en/company/hgst/
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25 Feb 2014 22:23 #34188 by Dreyvas

L0rdG1gabyt3 wrote:

Dreyvas wrote: Haven't had a WD drive fail yet and I picked up a Hitachi 4TB recently due to their low failure rates.

Psst.... Hitachi drives are made by WD now! ;) www.wdc.com/en/company/hgst/


Nice! Had no idea.

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