Which HDD Should i Choose?

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coldhart

Journeyman
Im looking for hdd to dump the data (tutorials, Blue ray movie, Anime, Po** etc etc)
huge speed is not primary focus since its not a boot drive but reliability is necessary first i was decided on one of the following HDD

Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD Internal Hard Drive (ST3000DM001)
WD Caviar Green 3 TB HDD Internal Hard Drive (WD30EZRX)

but now i found out both HDD have very high failing rate so im thinking about buying two 2TB HDD. since wd red is not available in bombay choices are very limited so which one should i choose?
Western Digital Green WD20EARX 2TB
Seagate 2TB 64MB Cache 7200
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB 5900 RPM

I already have 3 Seagate hdd which i bought 1.5 years ago out of them one is Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB 5900 RPM which works perfectly fine for dumping data no issue whatsoever but recently they reduced their warranty to 1 year so i can't say for sure about their product quality any more plz help me choose HDD?

System
Core i7 950
Gskill 6GB ram
Corsair HX650 PSU
Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R (rev 2.0) Mobo
HDD - 1TB X 2 Seagate Barracuda, 2TB X 1 Seagate Barracuda Green 6GBPS

OS - Win 7 Ultimate SP1 X64

I have only 2 sata 6gbps port one of them is occupied by Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB 5900 RPM which i bought last year so if i buy 2 X 2TB[6gbps] hdd can i join one of them to sata 3gbps port?

My Budget is 13.5K

Note:-
I have no intention of joining any hdd in any kind of raid
 
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d6bmg

d6bmg

BMG ftw!!
Any of first two options. The third one is comparatively inferior than other two.
 
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tkin

tkin

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Seagate hdds have one year warranty, so if reliability is your thing get WD, which has 2 yrs.

WD black has 5 yrs warranty, best so far: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

WD red has not yet come to India.
 
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vineet09

Broken In
WD is the best in reliability. You would never lose your data. Seagate might give you problems later. Most of my friends had some problem with Seagate.
iMPORTANT: wd HAS ONSITE WARRANTY
 
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coldhart

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thanks all of u for reply
@ tkin
mate but i heard wd black has very high failure rate since its mostly used as boot drive so performance takes priority over reliability correct me if im wrong & they are very costly 2tb around 10k

@ vineet09
i always fond of seagate hdd since i already have 3 hdd which are working smoothly but it looks like this year their hdd have hdd head problems which makes clicking or chirp like sound so i'll stick with wd since i can't risk my 3 tb data just to prove my fanboyism thanks for help

@ ssdivisiongermany1933
i need to buy 2 2tb hdd, wd blue is costly compare to the green series & infact this drive are only used for dumping tuts & movie, so huge speed is not in my priority list so i'll stick with 2 2tb wd green.if their is any issue with wd green plz tell me so i'll wait for wd red instead of going to the green
 
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whitestar_999

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earlier WD green series is known for its fast increasing load cycle count issue(basically head parking rapidly) which makes them the worst possible choice for NAS/RAID storage.even for normal usage according to many users such fast loading/unloading(parking) of head causes more chances of mechanical failures.maybe this changed with the latest generation of green drives but who knows.detailed reviews/analysis begin to appear only after 4-5 months of launch because drives which fail within days are affected by some specific problem which should be out by now.my advice is don't take chance unless you consider yourself very lucky when it comes to hard disks & buy 1 seagate & 1 WD.
 
tkin

tkin

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coldhart said:
thanks all of u for reply
@ tkin
mate but i heard wd black has very high failure rate since its mostly used as boot drive so performance takes priority over reliability correct me if im wrong & they are very costly 2tb around 10k

@ vineet09
i always fond of seagate hdd since i already have 3 hdd which are working smoothly but it looks like this year their hdd have hdd head problems which makes clicking or chirp like sound so i'll stick with wd since i can't risk my 3 tb data just to prove my fanboyism thanks for help

@ ssdivisiongermany1933
i need to buy 2 2tb hdd, wd blue is costly compare to the green series & infact this drive are only used for dumping tuts & movie, so huge speed is not in my priority list so i'll stick with 2 2tb wd green.if their is any issue with wd green plz tell me so i'll wait for wd red instead of going to the green
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No, WD green fails a lot, Black doesn't fail much.
 
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coldhart

Journeyman
@ whitestar_999, tkin
thanks for reply friends

@ tkin
that means wd green is worst choice
but Western Digital 2TB 64MB, 7200 RPM Caviar Black is for 13K in mumbai (Lamington Rd)
Cost of Western Digital 2TB 64MB, 7200 RPM Caviar Black

so any other suggestion?
 
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whitestar_999

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like i said before:don't take chance.buy one 2tb WD green & one 2tb 5900rpm(not the usual 7200rpm) seagate.both will cost ~6000 each.use 1 hard disk as the backup copy of other hard disk or in other words make sure important stuff has 1 copy in each hard disk.
 
tkin

tkin

Back to school!!
WD blue has more reliability than WD green, I'd say WD Black>WD Blue>WD Red>Seagate Barracuda>WD Green>Seagate Pipeline
 
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coldhart

Journeyman
My Budget is 13.5K
but wd black cost 13k just for 2TB that's the only reason i don't want that HDD
since in this same prize range i can get 3 TB or 2 X 2TB HDDs
any words about when wd red will hit the Indian market?
 
tkin

tkin

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coldhart said:
My Budget is 13.5K
but wd black cost 13k just for 2TB that's the only reason i don't want that HDD
since in this same prize range i can get 3 TB or 2 X 2TB HDDs
any words about when wd red will hit the Indian market?
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Wait a few weeks, but before going for red let me tell you we still have no reports about its reliability.
 
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