Slightly cheaper than the 4TB WD Blue drive but with a longer 5 year warranty and better performance.
Usually around £170, dispatched and sold by Amazon.co.uk
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ribs1 to Slenderman13
7 Feb 179#10
Whilst thankfully I am not an expert on retrieving data after drive failures, although I have had one or two over the years, I would very much like to know how Toshiba guarantee successful data recovery than under any failure circumstance as implied by your comment, as surely this ability would mean Toshiba would corner the HD storage market!
alphaomega16 to Slenderman13
7 Feb 177#15
The closest a WD Drive has come to failing for me is getting reports of bad sectors last night on a WD Green drive that had a power on time of nearly 5 years and I have purchased nothing but WD Drives.
If you were smart then you wouldn't need to recover data from a failed drive, I had a backup 2TB Green and just swapped them over last night.
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jouster
7 Feb 171#1
Not a terrible price and the warranty is pretty good. Drive needs a bit more power than. Let and is essentially an enterprise drive so may be a bit more than most people need
Stabilized to jouster
7 Feb 171#4
I have read that black disks run louder, hotter and use more power than blue. So you're right it might be overkill for some people.
Stabilized
7 Feb 171#2
Seems to be the cheapest price it has been on Amazon:
darthvader666uk
7 Feb 17#3
what a bargain! only last week I picked up a 1TB black for £66. Im tempted to send it back for this! Damn you OP, have some heat :smiley:
Neostar
7 Feb 172#5
^^ but it's faster
jadamso
7 Feb 17#6
Excellent find. Cheers! ;0)
Slenderman13
7 Feb 17#7
Never buy a WD hard drive they're THE worst for failing. Had about 7 of these fail. Go for a Toshiba instead. At least if a Tosh fails you can retrieve the data easily.
ribs1 to Slenderman13
7 Feb 179#10
Whilst thankfully I am not an expert on retrieving data after drive failures, although I have had one or two over the years, I would very much like to know how Toshiba guarantee successful data recovery than under any failure circumstance as implied by your comment, as surely this ability would mean Toshiba would corner the HD storage market!
alphaomega16 to Slenderman13
7 Feb 177#15
The closest a WD Drive has come to failing for me is getting reports of bad sectors last night on a WD Green drive that had a power on time of nearly 5 years and I have purchased nothing but WD Drives.
If you were smart then you wouldn't need to recover data from a failed drive, I had a backup 2TB Green and just swapped them over last night.
poison3k to Slenderman13
7 Feb 17#16
Dont think WD are that bad, had lots in my time with only a couple of failures but that could have been the age of the drive.
Why are Toshiba's easier to retrieve the data from?
If reliability is what you want most, look at HGST (Hitachi) for HDD and try to avoid 2-3tb drives of any brand as they have the worst failure rate.
babswatkins to Slenderman13
7 Feb 17#20
I'd recommend hgst drives
VimesUK to Slenderman13
7 Feb 17#34
How does the brand affect how you can recover your data...?
I tend to like WD drives (got two Purples in my NVR for CCTV recordings, several Reds in my home server and various Greens and Blues) as their customer support is amazing.
My last drive to fail was a 6TB Green and they, due to certain conditions applying, even replaced it without needing the old drive back.
Their typical advanced replacement policy has been excellent when I have used it in the past.
The only thing that I had done was to change the head parking for their Green drives.
Putting aside the brand if you have invested in ensuring regular backups are done, some of mine are even maintained "off-site," then a drive failure should only be an inconvenience rather than a disaster.
Good price for a good drive, heat added.
dealsonmeals
7 Feb 17#8
yes finally a HDD deal worth getting. I've been waiting ages to get more storage!
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Usually around £170, dispatched and sold by Amazon.co.uk
Top comments
If you were smart then you wouldn't need to recover data from a failed drive, I had a backup 2TB Green and just swapped them over last night.
All comments (61)
If you were smart then you wouldn't need to recover data from a failed drive, I had a backup 2TB Green and just swapped them over last night.
Why are Toshiba's easier to retrieve the data from?
If reliability is what you want most, look at HGST (Hitachi) for HDD and try to avoid 2-3tb drives of any brand as they have the worst failure rate.
I tend to like WD drives (got two Purples in my NVR for CCTV recordings, several Reds in my home server and various Greens and Blues) as their customer support is amazing.
My last drive to fail was a 6TB Green and they, due to certain conditions applying, even replaced it without needing the old drive back.
Their typical advanced replacement policy has been excellent when I have used it in the past.
The only thing that I had done was to change the head parking for their Green drives.
Putting aside the brand if you have invested in ensuring regular backups are done, some of mine are even maintained "off-site," then a drive failure should only be an inconvenience rather than a disaster.
Good price for a good drive, heat added.