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My 500 GB Seagate hard drive gave me a wonderful birthday present today! It died. Taking along a ton of music, ROMs, backups, and so on. It's no longer recognized on bootup; it doesn't even output anything over serial, while another 40 GB Seagate I have does.
So, I need a replacement - one that's not too terribly expensive, but also not likely to fail within the first year or two. But the last drive I bought was my 1 TB Samsung Spinpoint (still in good health!) back in 2010, so I have no idea which manufacturers and models today are good, which are bad, or hell, which ones still exist! Samsung doesn't make 'em anymore, apparently their HDD business was bought by Seagate. Looking around, the only(?) manufacturers these days are Seagate, WD and Toshiba, and... all three seem to be a bit of a crapshoot? With drives said to be failing or getting slower after very short periods of time, and in turn people recommending staying away from one brand and getting one from the other, while other people say the opposite, etc... On the positive side, since there's only these three left, making a shortlist of drives was easy - all are 2 TB, SATA 3 (6 Gb/s), 3.5" and not too expensive (around 60 Euro): - Seagate Barracuda (ST2000DM006) - WD Blue (WD20EZRZ) - Toshiba P300 (HDWD130[?]) ...now which one would you recommend, tho? I'm seeing similar reviews and such for all three of these. Do you have any of these, or any similar drives from the same manufacturer? Have you been happy with the drive or had any issues? ____________________
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I'd say HGST follwed by WD is your best bet. Both are pretty reliable...but anymore it really depends if you need something for a spacehog drive or if you need one for a boot or Steam or gaming drive and, if it's one of those latter, you should really consider an SSD. Anymore, you can get a 1TB for almost $100 on sale and I've seen them as low as about that as of late. Just waiting for 2TB drives to get down to that but I have a feeling that's still a few years off.
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