It is a lot cheaper, but be prepared to lose data.
(edited to close my brackets.... gotta get grammar right....)
t121anf
9 Dec 15#2
Prices finally starting to go in the right direction.
allOgIc
9 Dec 15#3
I bought 4 of these in 2014, Jan...the 28th...for £64.99, good to see they have dropped £0.18p in nearly 3 years.......
lucyferror
9 Dec 151#4
Nothing have higher failure rate than Seagate and people still but it every time when it's on offer.
Aretak to lucyferror
9 Dec 151#5
Since you apparently blindly bought into Backblaze's stats before, you should have no problem accepting that that's no longer true, and that WD hard drives are now the worst. :wink:
Never mind the numerous articles ripping apart their flawed testing methodology. Bin all your WD drives today and buy literally anything else!
k1ngchr15
9 Dec 15#6
The irony is that i'm on the market for a new hdd for the backup because my newest, largest, and most expensive drive failed... It was WD green. Have had nothing but trouble so far with wd greens.
It's especially depressing to me because I was a fan of Samsung drives. (I had the f4's and they are great.) So I'm kinda jumping around just trying to find a corner to sit in.
lucyferror
9 Dec 15#7
I'm not interested with some stupid tests and statistics. I have 8 Samsung hard drives - 2tb each running 24/7 for years and never ever had any problems with any of them. Same can't complain about rest of my Toshiba drives which I swap in a caddy or plug in using usb. I have two Seagate with less important stuff because I don't trust that **** at all. Agree with WD - high rate of failure but still wouldn't put any important data on Seagate.
rev6
9 Dec 15#8
You sure those Samsung drives aren't made by Seagate?
lucyferror
9 Dec 15#9
They are really old drives. Everything produced recently just don't last. Same with cd/dvd drives. Old HDD or cd will he still working while new stuff will die just after end if warranty. It's about getting what us less risky.
I think you mean the Samsung doesnt make hard drives anymore and now it's made by Seagate or something like that. I'm talking about old proper samsung drives.
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But looking at the infamous backblaze hdd failure rate article, this drive is over 4% failure year on year....
See here (do a ctrl + f for toshiba, its one of the actual drives being tested).
It is a lot cheaper, but be prepared to lose data.
(edited to close my brackets.... gotta get grammar right....)
Never mind the numerous articles ripping apart their flawed testing methodology. Bin all your WD drives today and buy literally anything else!
It's especially depressing to me because I was a fan of Samsung drives. (I had the f4's and they are great.) So I'm kinda jumping around just trying to find a corner to sit in.
I think you mean the Samsung doesnt make hard drives anymore and now it's made by Seagate or something like that. I'm talking about old proper samsung drives.