I came across this post at the Storagereview forums and am quoting it here for people to read - I dont think we should take this as the final answer to the question of whish is the BEST HDD ..... BUT ..... the author of the post is a very highly respected member of Storagereview forums so take this as an opinion of someone who knows a lot on HDDs.
The results quoted are got from the amount of HDD returned of those sold. I am sure these figures would be different for HDDs sold in India as it would depend a lot on the handling of the HDD enroute to the local stores.
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Seagate 7200.10 Review - Discussion@SR
The results quoted are got from the amount of HDD returned of those sold. I am sure these figures would be different for HDDs sold in India as it would depend a lot on the handling of the HDD enroute to the local stores.
Although 3 months on market is still a baby-age also for HDD, my pretty large distributors' information is showing exceptionally good reliability for 7200.10 320GB so far, just like the old famous 7200.7 was. On relative comparable scale it is 1.8 times more reliable than 7200.9 one-platter models, 2.2 times more reliable than the new Raptors, 3 times more reliable than WD3200 and WD800, 3.7 times more reliable than T7K250(250GB version), 4 times more reliable than Samsung P120 and P80SD series, 6 times more reliable than some larger capacity 7200.9 models, 9 times more reliable than 7200.8 models, 11...19 times more reliable than Maxtor's MLIII/DM10 series.
Of course, usually this rating would drop in some amount in future when the new drive series gets more mature. Also, there may be some local delays in RMA'ing which could arise the rating especially for the models being on market just couple of months yet. But still, looks very promising anyway... However I was not able to detect any realistic ratings for 750GB and 500GB models from 7200.10 series because of just insufficient number of drives sold yet.
However, on side-note, looking on a few other aspects, there's something wrong with WD4000 and WD5000 series which are always giving lower than average reliability ratings. But at the same time these more-expensive series aren't sold in very big quantities yet, so the results can't be taken very seriously so far. The other clear finding is that so-called "short-stroked" models have always about just 2 times lower reliabilities than for their basic "mother" models! And that's equally true for Seagate, WD, Hitachi (didn't analyzed others). Interesting, sounds like these "short-stroked" models really have including a lot of bad drives from mother series formatted onto lower capacities...
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