Reputable HDD brand [PC Help]

[Dobby]

I'm looking to buy a new HDD for my PC, around the 1TB mark, does anyone know a good brand. By good, i mean something that's not going to randomly die out on me

I was thinking of going for Western Digital, anyone had experience with them? or any other you'd like to recommend?

[Dr_dog]

Go with Western Digital Black (Speed and cheaper) or Red series which is made from sturdier parts and made for NAS and Server use so they should last longer. + They are Sata III (6Gbps)
Dont buy those Green drives, those do suicide pretty quickly due to it shutting itself down to low power mode. and keeps dropping it from RAID and such..
I had many seagates dying on me so i wouldnt buy those

[DJ_Smashon]

I think I am using Wester Digital Green. Pretty sure.

[Matias]

WD Western Digital FTW! i found a 320gb one and now im running 2 of them at my pc xD

[George]

I have a Western Digital of 1TB SATA-III IntelliPower 64MB Red and it`s really good.If you wanna know anything about it,ask.

[Ethan]

I have two (currently) western digital hard drives, one is and 80GB and the other is 300GB I believe.. both are external and both run very well.. (well the 300 one hangs the OS when booting up) but otherwise fine, and the other two external ones I have that dont work now are western digital too


one other I would recommend would be Seagate

[Terrorista310]

mines are all samsung, never had a problem with them

[Dr_dog]

WD Seems to get good praise on most people who contributed to the thread. Also it has long history with hard drives. And they are not horribly expensive, not from cheapest made-in-china crap like maxtor and seagate (samsung too?) And they are reliable. I got the pair of 8GB drives still running for like 12th year in constant use.

[Hobo]

I'm a fan of Western Digital. I have one that is 12 years old and still works like a charm.

[Dobby]

i've gone for this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Green-Desktop-Drive/dp/B006GDVREI/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1375741799&sr=8-5&keywords=western+digital+1tb

Think it seems ok? i dont really car how it looks as long as it does its job.

Thanks to all who have posted so far.

[bazingashane0]

Western digital greens are bad.

[Dobby]

Western digital greens are bad.

why

[Vinny]

Why not a SSD though

[Joshy]

Western Digital all the way. I've got 2 WD HDDs in USB enclosures and they've been subjected to drops, yanks and the like and they've been running for about 5 years now. One was originally in my PS3 for a year or two before that...

I've had an Hitachi break before (original PS3 40GB HDD) and in my laptop I have a Samsung HM321HX which has seen 3 years of life now.

[Hobo]

Why not a SSD though

At the moment they are rather expensive compared to HDDs.

[bazingashane0]

Why not a SSD though

At the moment they are rather expensive compared to HDDs.

Depends if you want a lot of programs and games installed on your ssd.

[Dobby]

Why not a SSD though

At the moment they are rather expensive compared to HDDs.

Depends if you want a lot of programs and games installed on your ssd.

The only thing's ill be storing on my HDD are games, and videos, thats about it

[DJ_Smashon]

I really want a SSD for fast booting but they're expensive for only that

[Viper]

I got seagate barracuda green

[Dr_dog]

Dont buy those WD Green drives, those spins down and drops out of windows even. And they break much easier due to spinning down, spin up, spin down..spin up....spin down. power cycle is what kills electronics not the constant use.
Who gives shit about boot times if you boot the machine up once a day?

[TheSandman]

Id go with a Western Digital. Common brand, good rep. Ill be buying a 3TB soon, more than likely a Red one. I have a 2TB Green right now.
Windows/common programs are on my SSD.

[Dobby]

Id go with a Western Digital. Common brand, good rep. Ill be buying a 3TB soon, more than likely a Red one. I have a 2TB Green right now.
Windows/common programs are on my SSD.

Define common programs? Since i have Pawn open a lot, and compile a lot, would compilation time be affected by an SSD?

I've been looking at a WD Caviar Black. Since Hax said about the spinups & downs, Had any experience with failing? there's a review on Amazon that complains about noise, but he had to send it back after 4 months

[Dr_dog]

Yes i had, when the Greens came out first. I bought 2 of them for my HTPC. in raid 1 the another of them died withn 8 months.
Also they are 5400RPM drives so they are slow.

[TheSandman]

Id go with a Western Digital. Common brand, good rep. Ill be buying a 3TB soon, more than likely a Red one. I have a 2TB Green right now.
Windows/common programs are on my SSD.

Define common programs? Since i have Pawn open a lot, and compile a lot, would compilation time be affected by an SSD?

I've been looking at a WD Caviar Black. Since Hax said about the spinups & downs, Had any experience with failing? there's a review on Amazon that complains about noise, but he had to send it back after 4 months

Xfire, Firefox, Fraps. Just common shit that doesnt need to be backed up.
All my Steam, Movies, TV shows, GTASA, Pictures, Screenshots/Videos are all on my WD Green. 140GB free space...