Storage Solutions Suggest 2TB Hard Disk - Seagate or WD?

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Crazy_Eddy said:
^ 7200 rpm or 5400 rpm? The WD 2TB 7200 rpm would be a WD Black. I doubt it will be <5k.
Edit: Just looked up the listing and its a typo. Its a WD Green and those definitely don't run at 7200 rpm.

Seagate Pros:
- SmartAlign which transparently handles the 4k format (tested and works fine even on XP)
- Better performance (assuming its against the WD green)

6Gbps is largely academic and makes no difference, but is an easy way to make sure you're getting the newer Seagate Green (ST2000DL003) and not the older Seagate LP since the older one uses contact start stop for its heads, not the more reliable ramp loading.
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You're right, it's a Caviar Green, but DVDstoredelhi has listed it as 7200 RPM in the description. :P
eBay India: WESTERN DIGITAL WD 2TB SATA 7200RPM 64MB 3Yr (item 130482173350 end time 10-Feb-2011 00:30:00 IST)

Also, I found out that my mobo only supports SATA speeds upto 3 GB/s.
Screw it, I'm getting Two 1TB Seagate 7200.12's.
 
Doesn't make a difference. The 6 Gbps standard is backward compatible.

Running it on a 3 Gbps board myself.
 
If u r thinking of storing movies, songs n stuff, seagate LP is good...
M usin one...

But once u start doin 2 things at a time, u will see soooo much lag that ull wish u had never bought it...
Even installing games from image stored in LP to another HDD is quite slow...

The extract here is very slow...
I mean, when I do extract here to some 50 part game, of 7-8GB, it generally dosent take more than 2 mins, but in seagate LP 2TB, u actually hav to wait n wait till it completes...
It takes upto 15 mins for the same file...

Best bet would be to buy a WD black if in budget, or greens r good too...

But again they r also slow...
Faster then Seagate LP but still slow...
But multitaskin is better on greens, but I have heard greens fail a lot...
I have 1TB green, no issues yet...
I think Black is the way to go...
 
kidpikoon said:
If u r thinking of storing movies, songs n stuff, seagate LP is good...

M usin one...

But once u start doin 2 things at a time, u will see soooo much lag that ull wish u had never bought it...

Even installing games from image stored in LP to another HDD is quite slow...

The extract here is very slow...

I mean, when I do extract here to some 50 part game, of 7-8GB, it generally dosent take more than 2 mins, but in seagate LP 2TB, u actually hav to wait n wait till it completes...

It takes upto 15 mins for the same file...

Best bet would be to buy a WD black if in budget, or greens r good too...

But again they r also slow...

Faster then Seagate LP but still slow...

But multitaskin is better on greens, but I have heard greens fail a lot...

I have 1TB green, no issues yet...

I think Black is the way to go...
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My 2TB Seagate LP is giving way better performance than my WD Green 1TB, in real time as well as in benches.
 
go seagate

for as long as i remember, i have never ever had any issues with seagate

but my 1TB WD HDD failed(told my father buy Seagate!!!!)
 
bumping this

buying a 2Tb drive today or tomorrow.

can't open the link from dvdstores thread since it is infected.

what is my best contender for this drive at present?

it will just be a storage drive but i dont mind spending a couple of hundred bucks extra if performance and reliability is higher.

my 1.5TB fro WD has developed bad sectors due to damn ext4 and need to backup before it runs out of time.

if the issue about 1.5TB gets resolved then i'll most prolly sell this 2TB back with a considerate depression. But i dont want to buy with that as an assumption.
 
Bought a 1TB seagate ext HDD last year.Went caput in jan. Gave it for RMA and got the replacement in under 20 days.The thing is you can log onto accel website and track the progress.
 
WD certainly NOT (as it will fail 100% guarented, will get a brand new 4GB, which also will definately fail after some time)

and

Seagate definitely NOT (as it will fail fifty-fifty chance, but will be harrased a lot if to be replaced.. hell of a RMA procedure)

This is what everybody's experience in India.
 
I use revoSleep to disable the backup drive. Enable it only when syncing with the main drive. This is for an HTPC drive containing movies/shows/flac/bluray isos etc. Having been using Seagate 1TBs and recently bought the 2TB green from dvdStore.
Next step would be to get a 4 bay enclosure, without NAS, insert 2TB x 4 drives. Use 2 for media, 2 for backup!
 
finally got my Seagate 2 TB

Field Value

ATA Device Properties

Model ID ST2000DL003-9VT166

Serial Number XXXXXXXXXX

Revision CC32

World Wide Name 5-000C50-02F36E813

Device Type SATA-III

Parameters 3876021 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors per track, 512 bytes per sector

LBA Sectors 3907029168

Buffer Unknown

Multiple Sectors 16

ECC Bytes 4

Unformatted Capacity 1907729 MB

ATA Standard ATA8-ACS
ATA Device Features

48-bit LBA Supported

Advanced Power Management Not Supported

Automatic Acoustic Management Supported, Enabled

Device Configuration Overlay Supported

DMA Setup Auto-Activate Not Supported

General Purpose Logging Supported

Host Protected Area Supported, Enabled

In-Order Data Delivery Not Supported

Native Command Queuing Supported

Phy Event Counters Supported

Power Management Supported, Enabled

Power-Up In Standby Not Supported

Read Look-Ahead Supported, Enabled

Release Interrupt Not Supported

Security Mode Supported, Disabled

SMART Supported, Enabled

SMART Error Logging Supported

SMART Self-Test Supported

Software Settings Preservation Supported, Enabled

Streaming Not Supported

Tagged Command Queuing Not Supported

Write Cache Supported, Enabled
SSD Features

Data Set Management Not Supported

Deterministic Read After TRIM Not Supported

TRIM Command Not Supported
Glad to notice this is revision cc32, there were some problems in rev 31. Can some one explain - BUFFER = UNKOWN ? why is that
 
Recent seagate is having lots of problem in hdd, mostly rma issue.. Wd ftw.. But avoid green edition. Since its low on cache mem.
 
^ WD is equally bad with RMA.

Cache mem is a decent 64MB on the (newer) Green drives and doesn't really impact performance much, but in any case nobody buys a green drive for performance.
 
Here's the price check on each 2TB:

WD Caviar Green:

4500/- @ Prime

6625/- @ ITBazaar

Seagate Barracuda Green:

4600/- @ Prime

4650 @ ITBazaar

Any suggestions?
 
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