Decent drive at lowest price recorded.. get em quick i expect they'll shift soon
edit: Few comments mentioning failure rates on drives etc so thought I'd point out my own experience with these drives has been pretty good, much better than the older 2TB drives from Seagate.
We probably buy around 10-20 drives a month for various projects so have a reasonable insight into reliability. IME no drive is 100% reliable but some are terrible so best option is to buy in mixed pairs from a good supplier and use a mirror (raid1) or better yet buy 4 and run raid 10.
You'll get 4 x read speed and 2x write speed and a minimum 1 drive failure tolerance with raid 10. That's ~£44 per TB, (if you have a controller already) and faster than many SSD's
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glenns
24 Aug 17#1
Decent drive at lowest price recorded.. get em quick i expect they'll shift soon
edit: Few comments mentioning failure rates on drives etc so thought I'd point out my own experience with these drives has been pretty good, much better than the older 2TB drives from Seagate.
We probably buy around 10-20 drives a month for various projects so have a reasonable insight into reliability. IME no drive is 100% reliable but some are terrible so best option is to buy in mixed pairs from a good supplier and use a mirror (raid1) or better yet buy 4 and run raid 10.
You'll get 4 x read speed and 2x write speed and a minimum 1 drive failure tolerance with raid 10. That's ~£44 per TB, (if you have a controller already) and faster than many SSD's
Joshm74
24 Aug 17#2
Great spot OP thanks!
MrSweeney
24 Aug 17#3
Are these ST4000 models any better than the old ST3000 ones that use to fail quite often?
EagleUK to MrSweeney
24 Aug 17#4
Segates failure rate in general is always higher than WD drives.
Rabmac1 to EagleUK
24 Aug 17#9
This is simply not the case.
I agree that the 3TB Seagate had awful failure rates but WD actually have a higher failure rate if you remove this 3TB drive from the stats. The misconception that Seagate have higher failure rates than WD is due to people not understanding what they read, as I am assuming it comes from the data produced from data centre reports.
With regards to the deal, it is a great deal and I have added heat. My only gripe is that I bought this drive last week for £10 more. I should add that Amazon send these HDDs badly packaged if my recent experience is anything to go by.
ElRobinio to Rabmac1
24 Aug 17#12
Even discounting the backblaze reports about drive failure rates, in their unusual (for a desktop drive) usage, I'm sceptical about Seagate having fewer failures than WD, I'd bet good money that sampling an equal quantity of drives from each manufacturer would show Seagate having more failures overall.
My own experience over the past 10 years, 4 seagte drive faiures (1 & 2tb drives), 1 WD failure (1tb) and 1 Toshiba (500GB maybe?). I've ditched seagate now and have mostly WDs for spinning disks now.
Look at the hard drive failure rates for a 12 month period and it shows that WD have a higher failure rate than Seagate. Like you I would be interested to see the stats for home use.
OrribleHarry to EagleUK
24 Aug 17#17
Not true, hasn't been for quite some time, if anything Seagate fail less nowadays.
Rich44 to EagleUK
25 Aug 17#24
Absolute rubbish
jimbojames79
24 Aug 17#5
So it says it's good for home servers. I'm a bit sceptical tbh. Anyone have an opinion?
tek-monkey to jimbojames79
24 Aug 17#7
My HP Microserver has 4 drives in it, the newest is 2 years old the oldest about 6 or 7. They are all on 24/7, and were the cheapest I could get at the time. On the flip side I have 6 WD 2Tb Reds in a QNAP at work, they are 5 years old and I have 1 failure and another with a warning on it.
I guess what I'm saying is don't believe the hype, but also make sure you back up anything you care about!
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edit: Few comments mentioning failure rates on drives etc so thought I'd point out my own experience with these drives has been pretty good, much better than the older 2TB drives from Seagate.
We probably buy around 10-20 drives a month for various projects so have a reasonable insight into reliability. IME no drive is 100% reliable but some are terrible so best option is to buy in mixed pairs from a good supplier and use a mirror (raid1) or better yet buy 4 and run raid 10.
You'll get 4 x read speed and 2x write speed and a minimum 1 drive failure tolerance with raid 10. That's ~£44 per TB, (if you have a controller already) and faster than many SSD's
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edit: Few comments mentioning failure rates on drives etc so thought I'd point out my own experience with these drives has been pretty good, much better than the older 2TB drives from Seagate.
We probably buy around 10-20 drives a month for various projects so have a reasonable insight into reliability. IME no drive is 100% reliable but some are terrible so best option is to buy in mixed pairs from a good supplier and use a mirror (raid1) or better yet buy 4 and run raid 10.
You'll get 4 x read speed and 2x write speed and a minimum 1 drive failure tolerance with raid 10. That's ~£44 per TB, (if you have a controller already) and faster than many SSD's
I agree that the 3TB Seagate had awful failure rates but WD actually have a higher failure rate if you remove this 3TB drive from the stats. The misconception that Seagate have higher failure rates than WD is due to people not understanding what they read, as I am assuming it comes from the data produced from data centre reports.
With regards to the deal, it is a great deal and I have added heat. My only gripe is that I bought this drive last week for £10 more. I should add that Amazon send these HDDs badly packaged if my recent experience is anything to go by.
My own experience over the past 10 years, 4 seagte drive faiures (1 & 2tb drives), 1 WD failure (1tb) and 1 Toshiba (500GB maybe?).
I've ditched seagate now and have mostly WDs for spinning disks now.
Look at the hard drive failure rates for a 12 month period and it shows that WD have a higher failure rate than Seagate. Like you I would be interested to see the stats for home use.
I guess what I'm saying is don't believe the hype, but also make sure you back up anything you care about!
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