Well, my two turned up.
And it seems they are both DOA.

The drive is effectively buzzing at me 5 times then doing nothing.
Can't tell if the noise is the motor trying to start up or the heads moving.
Either way it's a bit weird they both exhibit the same problem.

Computer does not detect them, and my attached storage says they're critical and need replacing immediately...
Fun stuff

I did say time and money

If you have time and money raid 5 or 6 is far far better than raid 1 and copes with drive failure

This is the weirdest thing about hard drive debates. You'll have people swear allegiance to a particular brand, saying all others are condemned to hell, but in reality, there are only a few to choose from. You might as well say "I won't buy an Intel CPU again, I had one and it looked at me funny"

i'm a little confused with this diagram. surely 3 of those are the exact same company... HGST is Hitachi and HGST is owned by WD. :/

2gb won't get me far :man:

My backup methods are terrible, so the storage needed is quite large.
When I have some time to sit down and go through the black hole I'll probably be able to shrink it to fit in a 2tb volume.

But then those other people that use me as I.T. support will put a load more photos and macrium images onto it :disappointed:
Had to do a clean install on a laptop recently, so copied off the important stuff to the backup array, then put it back into the new install. They had the nerve to ask where all the youtube downloaded flv music videos had gone?! It's amazing what some people see as important data... Forget the bit where windows was so broken/infected that defender couldn't see the internet connection.

oh and drive revisions aren't noted either .

Backblaze's stats are only indicative. Previous stats have included only 4 hdds from wd, then 8k from segate, so when you have drives in that type of range the results are meaningless .

I also have loads of original Samsung drives that I have been running for years.
They shouldn't have sold their HDD devision so early on.

WD Caviar Black all day! Decent performance for a mechanical drive and 5 year no quibble guarantee - BUT you won't get 3TB for less than £70!!

Just go down to 2gb (presumably cheaper), buy two of them as run them as a RAID 1 config or one as a backup, if you're worried about data loss.

Who needs 3TB anyway? If your data is that mission critical, you'll be more concerned about data integrity that size.

I think Samsung thought that mechs. were on their way out but the prices of ssds did not drop to replace hdds.

Would anyone risk this for a NAS? Im tempted as my synology currently powers down when not in use .

I have 4 of these drives, and so far, 1 year in I have had no data lost and no issues whatsoever.

Good price but considering it would be replacing the Toshiba 2TB that failed on me within 2 months I'll wait for a different manufacturer

Maybe old but very reliable and I'm not worried.

That's old :smiley:

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.

You sure those Samsung drives aren't made by Seagate?

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.

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.

Nothing have higher failure rate than Seagate and people still but it every time when it's on offer.

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.......

Prices finally starting to go in the right direction.

I was tempted for my current backup solution.

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....)