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The next time someone asks you "how does a hard drive work," send them a link to this video. Actually, the first 25 seconds of the video explains things quite nicely.
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That was a great video. Most of that I did not know. I am just happy the HDD works more than 10 hours without failure. I just wish they would work on the reliability over density in priority. I have been thinking of trying a 4TB Seagate drive. I keep hearing about the high failure rate. Should I just stick with Hitachi/WD?
That was a great video. Most of that I did not know. I am just happy the HDD works more than 10 hours without failure. I just wish they would work on the reliability over density in priority. I have been thinking of trying a 4TB Seagate drive. I keep hearing about the high failure rate. Should I just stick with Hitachi/WD?
Hard drives are like cars, same bias reputation applied to an entire company by a person with a bad experience, inversely it is the same with good experiences. Buy from a manufacturer and stay away from rebrands and you should be fine. I have had drives fail from each and some last forever (it seems) but if data is really important to you, work with a nice backup strategy to preserve your stuff.
I was going to keep my comments to myself and void the hard drive wars but they appear to be in full swing.. so I will just say I have had the same 160gb Seagate boot drive for nearly a decade and its my boot drive. It also has a perfect SMART rating, as unlikely as that sounds.
My issue with Seagate is with their larger drives. The bigger they get the worse they are, it seems.
As mentioned above though, all brands make good and bad drives. Any search can net you results to back up or dismiss claims from all camps.
Density or drive speed is more likely the reason rather than the connection interface. Not many HDDs can saturate an IDE cable in consumer models.Yeah; I could say the exact same thing for their older drives. Ran a stripped pair of 80gig segate about 10 years; flawless. Finally stepped up to newer drives because the SATA interface was so much faster. But I had 2 WD "Green" 1TB drive fail in less than 2 years.
And one Segate 500 GB fail in a year.
This effected my main work system and I was out of business; can't have that ever; sent to a SSD; now all our computers have SSD boot drives.