Storage Solutions Reliable high capacity Internal HDD ?

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The purpose of this thread is to find which is presently the most stable and reliable Hdd in capacity especially 1Tb and 1.5tB one..2tb out since it almost cost twice the price of 1.5tb or the Rs/gb ratio is too high compared to others

My wd 1 Tb just got dead in hardly 40 days of use(had only backup old contents and important folders on it...havent strained it with continuous transfer here and there or OS install on it)

There are tons of thread regarding Seagate and their 7200.11 hdd issue

Similarly 2-3 people getting samsung 1.5tb around 5k too have faced difficulties regarding same and also RMA problem

Now what is left is Hitachi whose presence is doubtfull right now in market

Dont know whether strontium and transcend comes with internal hdd or about other companies like maxtor about whom i hardly hear

Please stick to reliability rather than performance .....No point discussing performance when your data cant be accessible
 
Doesn't exist... Only way would be to buy two HDD's of same capacity from diff. manufacturers & then clone them...

Redundancy is the only way out... ;)
 
I also need a 1Tb or more capacity HDD and unable to find which one to get.Its so volatile that u cant put your IMP data one one of them and relax.................:huh::huh::huh:
 
Reliability = Use RAID 1 (Mirroring), buy two HDDs, same make same model, your BIOS/ Mobo should ofc support RAID. If you have ASUS you may also have EZ Raid options etc.
 
axeman said:
Reliability = Use RAID 1 (Mirroring), buy two HDDs, same make same model, your BIOS/ Mobo should ofc support RAID. If you have ASUS you may also have EZ Raid options etc.
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Can both disc fail simultaneously one together at the same time
 
MAGNeT said:
Can both disc fail simultaneously one together at the same time
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yes :ohyeah: but the probability of both drives failing at the same time is less than the probability of single drive failing.

anyway there are more RAID options with adding more drives :cool2:

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For that, use RAID 0+1. Raid 5 will not solve your issue, as it can withstand only 1 drive failure. Raid 6 is a very expensive option for a home user. Also Raid 5 will give you low write performance if you dont invest in a good raid card.
 
The Solution can be:

RAID 1

the Total capacity is divided in half. Half of the capacity is used to store your data and half is used for a duplicate copy.

Why do I want that kind of redundancy?

It’s your data, your family pictures, your movie of baby’s first steps, your first novel. Is it important? You decide. If it is, then RAID mirroring is for you.

Lastly, I would remind.RAID is Not a Backup Solution, Its only effective against drive failure. however if accidental deletions,virus attack cause data loss RAID offers no projection as same changes would be instantly mirrored to other HDDs.raid should always be used in addition to your normal backups

Hence proper Backup is still required with RAID.

* My Suggestion:

RAID is just too much for average home user. I would recommend to buy a external HDD and do *Automated* snapshot based backups.remember the keyword here is Automated, the more seemless you backup workflow is, its more chances are of you to do frequent backups.

people with more complex needs should invest in proper NAS solution.
 
Guys , we know the HDDs setups , Please mention reliable HDD brands and models . Thats what the topic is about. .I am also looking for 1 TB or 500 GB highly reliable HDD for purely data backup .If I get it at a good price ,will mirror them .
 
nfsnfs said:
Guys , we know the HDDs setups , Please mention reliable HDD brands and models . Thats what the topic is about. .I am also looking for 1 TB or 500 GB highly reliable HDD for purely data backup .If I get it at a good price ,will mirror them .
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Doesn't exist... PERIOD... :P

Just mirror them (clone) on same capacity diff. brand HDD...
 
HailStonE said:
Doesn't exist... PERIOD... :P

Just mirror them (clone) on same capacity diff. brand HDD...
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RAID doesnt work well across diff brands, it has to be same brand same model, preferably bought at the same time/ lot.

Go with Seagate, for the 1 Tb units, I have had a better experience.
 
MAGNeT said:
Can both disc fail simultaneously one together at the same time
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This is why i prefer to have two rigs (an older one will work + older drives) which is off most of the time except for when syncing changes over. You could do it daily, weekly, monthly. This way even if you lose everything in the main rig, your bakcup is offline and hopefully disconnected so it wont be affected. If you want better then augment RAID 1 with an offline rig.

As for a more reliable drive go with enterprise drives, seagate, WD have them. You will pay 20% more for them, they have a correspondingly longer life ie 20% over consumer ones. So from that pov cost no more than consumer ones if you factor for it.

Of all those nightmare stories you hear how many were enterprise drives ;)
 
blr_p said:
As for a more reliable drive go with enterprise drives, seagate, WD have them. You will pay 20% more for them, they have a correspondingly longer life ie 20% over consumer ones. So from that pov cost no more than consumer ones if you factor for it.

Of all those nightmare stories you hear how many were enterprise drives ;)
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Enterprise drives are not worth it man because they fail too:P.they are costly as hell and does not hold any meaning when you are get same reliability from Commodity HDDs.
Having proper automated backups is the solution which most home users don't do and then blame companies when their HDDs fail.I read somewhere that of total computer user group; only 88% agree on need to take backups(wonder what rest 12% are thinking!).

And 30-40% users actually take backups. the most scary part is only 6% of total computer users do backups regularly.
 
Gaurish said:
Enterprise drives are not worth it man because they fail too:P.they are costly as hell and does not hold any meaning when you are get same reliability from Commodity HDDs.
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Are they ?

Prices I've seen abroad worked out to 20% more only. It's curious they would be more here as there is no duty charged when importing HDDs.

Yes, they will fail (eventually) but no where at the rate these latest batches of consumer WDs & Seagates. I do recall reading a post here the other day where someone said the 7000.12 drives from Seagate were better. Thing is how long has it been these drives came out :( Maybe more time is required.

WD & Seagate have had some bad luck over the last cpl of yrs, I cannot recall a time when so many ppl were complaining over lost drives.
Gaurish said:
Having proper automated backups is the solution which most home users don't do and then blame companies when their HDDs fail.I read somewhere that of total computer user group; only 88% agree on need to take backups(wonder what rest 12% are thinking!).

And 30-40% users actually take backups. the most scary part is only 6% of total computer users do backups regularly.
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Those are scary figures where did you get them from ?
 
blr_p said:
Those are scary figures where did you get them from ?
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Hmmm...I read a article about apple's time machine few years before. not sure if I remember the numbers correctly but it was similar. Hold on, let me search that article and I would add a link here:)

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This this article from 2007(about 3yrs back). The numbers are off a bit(my memory isn't as good as I thought..lol), so posting the correct ones.not sure how relavent its today, but if you look around, attitude of Computer Users towards backups hasn't changed much.

Apple took a survey of its customers' backup habits before creating Time Machine. Eighty percent of Mac users said they knew they should backup their data. (This is scary already. Only 80 percent?) Twenty-six percent said they do backup their data. That actually doesn't sound too bad until you get to the next question. Only four percent backup regularly.

In a nutshell, this means that if you could snap your fingers and make one Mac user's main hard drive disappear, there's a 96 percent chance that you just destroyed files that are completely unrecoverable.
 
Hmm, i wonder if the figures would be slightly better with PC users given they know their system isn't as immortal :)

I mean c'mon, Apple's a shiny bit of kit, you think its really is immortal right :ashamed:

Just look at all the love & care put into designing them.
 
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