{"id":145,"date":"2015-01-23T13:20:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T13:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=145"},"modified":"2021-08-09T13:31:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T11:31:23","slug":"hard-drive-models-and-vendors-which-one-to-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2015\/01\/23\/hard-drive-models-and-vendors-which-one-to-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard drive models and vendors: Which one to buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Amazon\"After I was hit by a stalled hard disc a few months ago, I keep my eyes always open to spot articles about recommendations for reliable hard drives. Today I found an interesting article about that topic.<\/p>\n

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There are 3 major vendors HGST (Hitachi), Seagate and Western Digital (WD) selling different hard drive models. Some with 1 TB capacity, some with 2 TB and more. Since UEFI systems supports drives from 3 TB upwards, many people will buy such hard drives. But it's sometimes a question of a drives price, whether you choose a 3 TB against a 4 TB model. But this could be a worse decision.<\/p>\n

Backup company Backblaze (backblace.com) uses 25,000 hard drives for its online backup services. Last year, they published the article What Hard Drive Should I Buy?<\/a> with helpful insights. Now Backblaze published a new report What is the Best Hard Drive?<\/a>, discussing reliability data obtained from their \"hard drive farm\" during 2014. The following bar graph, obtained from Backblaze report gives us interesting insights. <\/p>\n

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(Hard drive failure rate in 2013\/2014; Source: backblaze.com<\/a>) <\/p>\n

Whilst Seagate was the manufacturer with the most hard drive failures in 2013 (see 1st report<\/a>), the bar graph shown above gives us further hints. Seagate has not only a significant higher failure rate as the competitors. It seems also, that failure rate of 3 TB drives is much higher as for 4 TB models (although statistics is a nasty thing, and the figures shown above doesn't correlates the amount of drives from one type and one vendor). As a conclusion, it seems a good idea to skip 3 TB hard drives and use 4 TB discs \u2013 and it may be wise, to select a vender with the most reliable products. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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