Recommend a dependable 1+ TB HDD

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My first post in the DS section...and I wish I didnt have to make it.

I was playing FEAR 2 the other night for a second run through and BSoD'd. When i rebooted, my 1.5 TB Seagate was not registering. I opened up Administrative Tools to get to the Storage info and found that the drive was seen but was not active. Every time I tried to reactivate it, I would get an error and the drive would not activate. I have tried everything I can think of short of contacting a Data Extraction Specialist. Basically, I lost close to 300 GB of full install games and about 200 Gigs of my movie back ups.

So I need a good dependable large capacity HDD to replace this pos. I would prefer it be 1.5 TB or higher but if there is nothing dependable in that range I would consider going smaller.

I have checked the egg a few times and found a couple of drives but all of them have mixed reviews. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!


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Western Digital

Since you are playing games I would reccomend the Black Series
 
Western Digital 10EADS or the 1TB Caviar Black.

Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ.

Hitachi 7K1000.B series...don't get the older models as they're 5-platter rather than the 7K1000.B's three platters.

Not so much with Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TBs...their 7200.11 have been having firmware issues, for a new buyer without any real good reason to absolutely go with Seagate for whatever (like an existing RAID array and such), it's best to avoid hassles from the get-go.

Other than the Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB, the only other disk as of yet 1TB+ would be the WD20EADS 2TB drive, but that's probably a bit out of your budget range at the moment. ;)
 
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Other than the Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB, the only other disk as of yet 1TB+ would be the WD20EADS 2TB drive, but that's probably a bit out of your budget range at the moment. ;)
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heh, nope. If that is the one that is the most dependable, that is the one I will be getting ;-)

Thanks for the recommendations everyone. I will check these drives out. If there are any more thoughts on this, please dont hold back :)
 
There's no track record on the 2TB WD at the moment, but I doubt it will be any worse than their recent models.
 
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