Which drive?

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
07/26/2017 at 12:16 • Filed to: None

One of these drives will be used as an external drive and the other will be installed in a laptop. Which should be which, in your opinion?

DISCUSSION (29)

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 12:18

I prefer Seagate products....but por que no el SSD?

Honeybunchesofgoats > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 12:19

I’d go with Kate so you have a name to shout curses at when it dies.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
07/26/2017 at 12:21

Porque ya tengo estos.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Honeybunchesofgoats
07/26/2017 at 12:22

Hmmm...

bhtooefr > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 12:25

Put the WD drive where it’ll be less more of a pain to recover from HDD failure.

Wacko > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 12:25

both seem to be 7200 rpm, so I would go with the quietest of the two for the laptop.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > bhtooefr
07/26/2017 at 12:26

Kind of my thinking. I’m thinking WD for the external, so it will be seldom used.

tuxOnWindows > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 12:26

The Seagate drive is newer and has a larger cache size so I’d install in in the laptop.... Or buy a cheap SSD for the laptop instead.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > bhtooefr
07/26/2017 at 12:26

Or, WD for the laptop I’ll sell on Craigslist...

bhtooefr > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 12:27

Er, actually, I got that backwards. That’s what I get for being sleep deprived.

Put the WD where it’ll be MORE of a pain, not less. As in, the Seagate is more likely to fail IMO.

Nibbles > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 12:31

Put Seagate Kate in the laptop

benh7 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 12:38

This one

Kinja'd!!!

Dave the car guy , still here > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 12:39

Just curious...did you name the Seagate one Kate? I used to call one of my PC “HAL” like in 2001 A Space Odyssey. Do I get an affirmative?

I’m kinda imagining a future message from Kate saying “I’ve just picked up a fault in the WD Scorpio unit. It’s going to go 100% failure in 72 hours”.

HammerheadFistpunch > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 12:41

WD all the way. My success rate for them vs seagate is nearly 2 to 1

Dave the car guy , still here > bhtooefr
07/26/2017 at 12:43

I’ve had both brands fail over the years. The Seagate died in an old Dell laptop and a WD in a homebuilt PC so I’d just give it a coin toss myself. I think the WD maybe survived more hours of usage.

I think the longest life laptop drive I ever had was a Toshiba. Went about 10-11 years in one I used for an OBDII and Vag-com scanning and hacking. The motherboard died before anything else.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 12:46

This is a trick question, right? The XT is an SSD hybrid with 8 GB of flash on it and it has one year less age from manufacture. There is no reason to not make it the internal.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > bhtooefr
07/26/2017 at 12:47

I have some of these Seagate SSD hybrid drives in laptops here at work. They’re fine. I wouldn’t expect it to be a realistically bigger risk of failure than the WD.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > tuxOnWindows
07/26/2017 at 12:54

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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Dave the car guy , still here
07/26/2017 at 12:56

I bought three drives once, at one time, and deployed them. All three were WD and two of them promptly failed.

Dave the car guy , still here > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 13:21

My first two laptops had Hitachi HD and they went until other issues killed both computers. I reused one as a spare for another computer for a while. It odd if you look at current reviews Seagates are failing at a fasted rate than the others but mostly in the 3TB or 4TB models. In smaller sized drives the percentage was about the same between many brands and I think it was just a few percent.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Dave the car guy , still here
07/26/2017 at 13:35

I wouldn’t buy a drive this large today that wasn’t SSHD, and I generally buy SSDs for the OS and store everything on mirrored old-fashioned platter drives. And I don’t store anything I care about on a laptop for long, so my laptops always get an SSD.

e36Jeff now drives a ZHP > Dave the car guy , still here
07/26/2017 at 13:45

I’ve been through a ton of HDDs, mostly WD. I’ve had only 1 actual in-use no warning failure of their drives, and that was likely attributable to young stupid me putting the enclosure on a subwoofer.

I’ve had 2 “graceful” failures where I got SMART errors but was able to replace the drive before data loss. One was a 1.5TB Black drive that I did an advance RMA on. They shipped me out a 2TB black drive, I copied the data over and sent the 1.5TB back. The other was a 1TB 2.5" blue drive that was the primary OS drive of my server(it lived a hard life as it was partitioned and part of the partition was in the server’s HDD pool), that also started throwing SMART errors outside of warranty but I was able to order an SSD and copy it out before it died entirely. These 3 failures are out of probably 20-30 total drives, one of which is probably over 10 years old at this point.

WD’s RMA process is actually really on point, and the advanced RMA(where they send you your replacement drive before you send them the faulty one) is a godsend if your drive is in the process of failing but has not bit the dust yet.

PartyPooper2012 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 13:46

Pffft. Logic. We want kate outside so we can play more. The other drive can go in the box

Pistol Whipped Cream > bhtooefr
07/26/2017 at 16:24

came here to say this.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 17:17

I find WD drives more reliable, in personal experience. I have one from 2003, an IDE 80GB with 13 YEARS of powered on time, and it still works perfectly with not one SMART error listed. :D

It’s an extra storage drive on my file server ATM.

Nibby > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 22:18

WD black for sure

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Nibby
07/26/2017 at 23:30

In the laptop?

Nibby > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/26/2017 at 23:51

yes

Justino6969 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/27/2017 at 16:19

Make with this what you will:

Kinja'd!!!

I’ve never had a Seagate last more than a couple years.