Storage Solutions 500 GB HDD, which to buy

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Hi, I tried buying one from Seagate through Flipkart. Luckily I noticed that the seller got very bad reviews, sending used, scratched products.

I am not able to find many good 500GB options on Flipkart. It is for my old PC which has OpenMediaVault. Is Consistent a good brand? It gets listed every time I try Flipkart. I believe it is a 3.5 inch old day style HDD. thanks.
 
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Hi, I tried buying one from Seagate through Flipkart. Luckily I noticed that the seller got very bad reviews, sending used, scratched products.

I am not able to find many good 500GB options on Flipkart. It is for my old PC which has OpenMediaVault. Is Consistent a good brand? It gets listed every time I try Flipkart. I believe it is a 3.5 inch old day style HDD. thanks.
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500GB are out of production long time, what ever are available are refurbished drives, considering Price/Gb its not practical to go for 500GB, get 1 GB instead .

Note: i have personally thrown away 2 WD Blue and will never ever recommend them (its my personal opinion) instead i would suggest Seagate if you don't need high transfer rates , go for IronWolf if you need high speed drive, if you have money to spare you can get a SSHD which has best of both SSD and HDD.
 
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No major companies are manufacturing 500GB HDDs anymore. Only sellers are consistent, Matrix and other such brands who sell old Seagate and Wd harddisks refurbished in a new packaging. That's why they have bad reviews. If you want 500gb sata storage in a tight budget I would suggest crucial bx500 or silicone power SSDs. You can consider purchasing 1Tb 7200rpm HDD too.
 
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I am ok with buying a 1 TB Seagate or WD HDD. I was not sure whether it will work as a replacement for my current 500GB HDD ( working ). It was built in 2014 and in those days people used to talk about the maximum capacity of a HDD per motherboard.

Any sales offer I can wait for in the near future on Flipkart? I am in no hurry.
 
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maximum capacity of a HDD per motherboard
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This got me intrigued. Closest to this I could find is the motherboard being limited to legacy BIOS which only supports MBR partitioning. Even that seems to support up to 2.2TB.

If there's any such limit, I think you could find it in you motherboard's specifications.
 
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Thanks all. Hopefully, I can get a good deal on a 1 TB HDD. Anything I should be worried about? I see the WD blue, green etc types are there.
 
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Thanks all. Hopefully, I can get a good deal on a 1 TB HDD. Anything I should be worried about? I see the WD blue, green etc types are there.
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If you want 3.5 hdd then wd blue(cheaper but slower).
If you want 2.5 sata ssd then wd green(little expensive but faster than hdd).
Personally I would go for sata ssd for boot drive but I see that you want to store data in openmediavault then hdd is also okay.
 
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You should get a Toshiba Drive instead of the most common options like Seagate and WD. Toshiba Drives are a rebranded Hitachi/HGST and they're considered to be most reliable HDD brands in the industry.

Folks who are suggesting that WD is better than Seagate or vice versa, there is no such thing. Every brand has good drives and bad drives. So, the general rule of the thumb is to go for a brand that has shown most consistent results in the past. Toshiba, Hitachi, HGST are among one of them but again no drive is going to last forever so.

You can also opt for a surveillance drive. They will be slower than a regular drive but more reliable since they're designed to work in systems which run 24x7.

As the others have suggested, no point in going for a 500gb drive, go for atleast 1TB.

Also, if you're planning to hold the data for a long term, I suggest using a RAID configuration which you can find about more on the internet.
 
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