Need to buy a 2 TB HDD, help needed.

sahil1033

sahil1033

In the zone
Actually i thought of buying
Seagate Barracuda 2 TB Desktop Internal Hard Drive (ST2000DM001) but when i heard about its CONS i thought of going for
WD Caviar Green 2 TB Desktop Internal Hard Drive (WD20EARX). What shall i do now?
 
mandarpalshikar

mandarpalshikar

Why So Serious ???
You'll find more bad reviews for WD Green sadly.

We had a similar discussion just last week. See below thread -
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/pc-components-configurations/167437-suggest-2tb-hard-drive-budget-6k.html
 
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sahil1033

sahil1033

In the zone
WD Blue comes in a range of 80 GB - 1 TB only :cry:

I wud have gone for WD Black if it wasn't meant only for storing data
 
jackal_79

jackal_79

Get Digit ized
sahil1033 said:
@gameranand
suggest something man, help me out
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Both wd green and Seagate are cheap and within your budget, but has performance issues. If you want to risk choose the one with higher warranty. Or you can pay higher price and get a wd black which are great performers and have 5 year warranty.
Another alternative is to go for Toshiba or Hitachi drives. Do a Google search about these drives and make a decision.
 
mitraark

mitraark

Decrepit
I have both and they are the same. No performance issues, mine are at work almost always since they have been bought , no problems yet in the last 18 months. Buy whichever is giving more warranty/ whichever is cheaper.
 
image

image

Broken In
Well for me data is important (like you) And I am scared that WD Green can go bad any day. So, what options I have?

1, Buy a WD Black at almost double the price.
2. Buy 2 WD Greens. (which is slightly higher than 1WD Black)

I chose option No.2. Remember WD black can also go bad, though the chances are less. But going 2 WD Greens dead at same time is almost nil (or very very less).

So, I have 6 WD Greens for my need of 3 HDDs.

If you want to play even safer, buy 1 WD Green and 1 Seagate of the same price.

I hope I made my stand clear.
 
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whitestar_999

Super Moderator
Staff member
according to the link by gameranand
The A/V drives ignore errors, the normal drives will do an error recovery to attempt to get back any data from the platter.When recording video (security cameras etc) you want an A/V drive that will just record whatever you throw at it, and keep going even if it misses a byte or two.An error in a couple of bytes just causes a minor blip in the video stream, but the rest won't stop.However if you store documents, a single byte error could corrupt megabytes or even gigabytes of important data.
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as per this WD green is suitable for storage/normal consumer usage while AV series is better suited for recording video streams(surveillance).
 
gameranand

gameranand

Living to Play
For data dumping at 6K Segate would be better suited for you. I own a WD 2 TB Green Edition and haven't faced any issues but I can't ignore many HDD failures I have seen with those drives so I would suggest you to go for Segate and if you want reliability at any cost then I guess WD Black Edition is available for around 10K and I also own that drive and performance wise WD Black is really fast than any Mechanical HDD out there. :)

image said:
Well for me data is important (like you) And I am scared that WD Green can go bad any day. So, what options I have?

1, Buy a WD Black at almost double the price.
2. Buy 2 WD Greens. (which is slightly higher than 1WD Black)

I chose option No.2. Remember WD black can also go bad, though the chances are less. But going 2 WD Greens dead at same time is almost nil (or very very less).

So, I have 6 WD Greens for my need of 3 HDDs.

If you want to play even safer, buy 1 WD Green and 1 Seagate of the same price.

I hope I made my stand clear.
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But WD Black has 5 year warranty and are the best of their class I would easily choose a WD Black over 2 WD Green anyday. They are one of the best that WD manufactures. :)
 
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