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Which is better 2TB drive. WD Green or Seagate Barracuda LP?
- Thread starter havokator
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Which of these two drives is better? They are both the exact same price.
Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB 5,900 RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive ST320005N4A1AS-RK
Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive WD20EARS
I can't comment on the WD but I do happen to have the seagate and haven't had any issues yet. Honestly they appear to be equal drives. I do have a friend who has the WD one and he also hasn't had any complaints. As for Benchmarks I can upload some tomorrow if you want for the seagate.
lizardking009
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I have 8 of the Seagates and 12 of the older WD20EADS WDs. For desktop use, flip a coin. For raid, the Seagates work with scterc whereas the WD doesn't.
[LYL]Homer
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See my sig for the power usage of each.
I have 8 of the Seagates and 12 of the older WD20EADS WDs. For desktop use, flip a coin. For raid, the Seagates work with scterc whereas the WD doesn't.
What do you mean by scterc? I plan to run the drives in RAID.
lizardking009
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What do you mean by scterc? I plan to run the drives in RAID.
scterc is a command that can be issued by smartmontools to set a short drive timeout. Its similar to TLER except that the setting does not survive a power cycle.
Drudenhaus
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I've been running 10x of the Seagate 2TB LP (ST320005N4A1AS is retail, I have the OEM SKU) drives on an Adaptec 5805 with a LSI SASX28 based backplane for some time now without any problems.
scterc is a command that can be issued by smartmontools to set a short drive timeout. Its similar to TLER except that the setting does not survive a power cycle.
And why is this important/necessary for RAID?
Seems like the Seagate is on the expensive side. Why not get a low cost Samsung or Hitachi?
Both the drives I listed are available for the same price. The seagate costs the same as the WD.
Drudenhaus
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Both the drives I listed are available for the same price. The seagate costs the same as the WD.
And the Seagate is higher priced than normal due it being the retail box version.
lizardking009
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And why is this important/necessary for RAID?
It prevents your drives from being kicked out of the array due to drive error recovery.