What does /g/ think is the best HDD and best SSD

>>58073863
HDD:
1.HGST
2.WD
3.Samsung
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99. Seagate

I've seen far more Seagates gone bad than any other. Roughly equal amounts of HDD's from all brands

>>58073940
Pretty much this.

I've seen metric shitload of Seagate drives go bad. It's like they have a monkey handling QC down there. Toshiba is another one I've learned to avoid.

>>58073940
Hitachi should be 1st or 2nd

>>58073863
Anything other than Seagate for HDDs. Samsung or Intel for SSDs.

>>58073968
HGST is Hitachi.

are 5200rpm drives more reliable for storing data?
[spoiler]my OS is running from SSD[/spoiler]

>>58073968
It already is.

Samsung for SSD's
HGST for NAS/storage drives

>>58073940
>>58073964
>>58073984
Yeah, i've heard some bad stuff about Seagate, I was just listing off random manufacturers from the top of my head.

I have a 500gb toshiba hdd in my pc at the moment and I havent had any problems yet with it, but im looking to upgrade my storage drives, I have a 120gb samsung m.2 ssd I havent quite yet gotten around to putting an OS on it yet and im pretty sure thats all i might use it for, I know western digital just came out with some SSD's as well, but I know samsung seems to be the leader in the SSD market at the moment.

>>58074046
but that came about right after WD's acquisition of SanDisk.

HGST for HDDs, no clue for SSDs

Whatever you buy, don't get the wd green or the blue with more than 1tb (they're greens relabeled). Aggressive head parking (8s of idle time) will fuck it up completely unless you run that dos exe

>>58073940
>>58073964
>>58073984
>>58074046
Memes. All you idiots just listen to what other idiots say. I have a 2TB Seagate HDD with 2 years of uptime. Hundreds of power on/off cycles and no read errors or bad blocks. On my phone so I don't have a speccy/hd tune screen.

If anything, I've come across dozens of bad WD drives of systems I've fixed and personal external drives - the laptop ones in particular seem to have lot of issues with the heads - not sure if that's been improved since.

>>58074129
I work as IT admin in 1000+ desktop setting
Seagates are the bane of my existence.

>>58073863
HDD:
1: HGST is top tier due to low failure rates since HGST specializes in making drives for servers. They have failure rates under 4%.
2: WD is ok as well, for their color series like Caviar Blue, while their drives with 4+TB have over 5% failure rates. Toshiba is on par with WD but their 1TB failure rates are a bit higher.

Powergap...

Seagate has really high failure rates.

SSD:
1:Samsung and Intel make perhaps the best SSDs but avoid Samsung's 750 and 840 series, those were made to be shitty on purpose so more people would buy the 850.
2: Crucial/Micron makes some ok SSDs now, but avoid the MX200.
3: PNY, Sandisk, ADATA, and Kingston are ok, but not the best in terms of speed. I would go with ADATA out of these.

Powergap...

Mydigital, Mushkin, and Patriot are meh. Don't know anyone who'd buy these.

Powergap...

Transcend. Avoid it.

Corsair and AMD also make SSDs but I don't know enough about them to say much.

Do current 3Tb WD Blue have any problems with parking something-something? Ive heard long time ago that you needed some utility to fix it otherwise the drive will go to shit fast.

>>58074129
>2 years
soon

>>58074196
WDidle3.exe. Do you hear clicks after 8 seconds of hdd idling?

>>58074129
And we should listen to your memes instead? I still have an 8 year-old WD HDD and it hasn't failed yet.
However I don't claim that other manufacturers are bad, I'm just saying for now I'm very happy with WD and won't use anything else.

>>58073940
hgst is a sub of wd lol

>>58074520
Yeah because nothing changes in 8 years

>>58074534
Couldn't possibly be less relevant.

>>58074545
>Yeah because nothing changes in 8 years
Then why buy new hardware at all?

>>58074583
The fuck are you on about?

>>58073940
Seagate has less failure rates than Toshiba now, but a few years back Seagate was worse.

>>58074595
Why would you buy newer HDDs if the quality of products has reduced so much that consumer hard drives can't even get 4 years of lifetime?

>>58074617
Because a different manufacturer has taken the place of the quality manufacturer, not to mention higher data desnity.

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I'll let this speak for its self.

>>58073863

HDD: Western Digital and Samsung

SDD: None, SSDs are shit still in development and anyone using them is indirectly a beta tester.

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>>58074706

>>58074506
I dont have the drive yet i consider purchasing it! Just was curious if its still a thing or if its as bad for the drive as i heard it is.

>>58074706
>n=1
No one said that WD disks don't fail.

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>>58074756

>>58074756
>>58074808
What are you comparing exactly? I dont understand what youre trying to show.

For HDDs I'll use just about anything. My personal experience has been 3 dead WD drives and 0 dead Seagates, despite owning several more of them than WDs over the years. Hell, I even used a pair of 7200.11s for years without issue. Not a single one of us has enough of a sample size to judge the market with any accuracy though.

For SSDs, I have Corsair and Crucial, and I once bought one of WD's first attempts at getting into the SSD market (SiliconEdge Blue), but that died an early death too. I've owned much fewer SSDs to base my experience on. One Corsair Force series, from back in the old SATA II days, two Crucial M4s in my main system, and one Crucial M4 mSATA in my laptop. I'd have no problems trusting a Samsung, and I'm open to trying Kingston, Plextor, OCZ/Toshiba, SanDisk, and Intel, just to name a few.

Bought an ADATA SP550 120GB for my new build, did I fuck up?

>>58075059

>ADATA

Yes.

>>58073994
but its owned by western digital

>>58074706
>>58074808
>Green drive is shit
Stop the presses.

>>58075677
It operates independently. If you buy a company and make it a subsidiary, it's not a given that you go in and change how that company works.

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>>58074808
Well I can do that too and post a WD Black with a Caution status...

HDD: Samsung
SSD: Intel

Quality stuff desu

>>58077052
>HDD: Samsung

What is the most silent HDD for storage?

>>58074723
Bait

>>58073863
HDD:
not dying: HGST
fastest: who still gives a fuck?

SSD:
2.5" SATA: who gives a fuck
m.2 SATA: who gives a fuck
m.2 NVMe: (i.e., fastest for 60 seconds before throttling) Samsung Pro 960
2.5" u.2 NVMe - read mostly: Intel DC 3600
2.5" u.2 NVMe - write heavy: Intel DC 3700
AIB PCIe: don't follow these anymore. probably still Intel though

>>58074129
So what? My Seagate drive has 4/5 years.
However, my mother's drive failed within an year. We're probably just lucky.

I've seen one WD drive fail, meanwhile my PC is running with 4 of them inside (fifth being the Seagate), most of them have more than 6 years, one is almost 10 years old. Still no issues.

Also good job comparing laptop drives to desktop ones. I've seen several laptop drives (including Hitachis) fail on me within one week of intensive use, those things just aren't meant for that kind of workload.

>>58073940
Just had a 2TB Seagate crash. For good record, it was 4 years old.

Now comes the eternal newfag question of which I fear I already know the answer:

>Can I recover the data without paying out the ass to a data recovery company?

I suspect it's a physical failure, as it makes a weird rythmic noise for a while after booting and completely shuts down after that sort while (~30s). I know that trying to diy change out the platters with a working hdd of the same type has like a 1% chance of succeeding, so that's only reserved for a very last ditch approach. I read something about freezing it, but that also seems to be highly risky.

Is there any way of saving the data? My entire collection of dank memes, school work and porn photos is among it, but paying €300+ (with a large risk of not even everything being saved) seems rather steep, especially since I'll be buying two hdds in the near future (not going to risk this again)

pls help

>>58079316
Btw I found out that it is the arm which is trying to move towards the middle of the plate, only to snap back shortly after. Would this be a problem with the pcb?

>>58074129
Seagate drives are unreliable because they have a high rate of failure within the first year of usage. That doesn't mean that the ~90% of drives that do make it past the first year are worse than any other drive, it's just that most people would rather not face a 1 in 10 chance of having their new hard drive fail within the first year.

>>58073863
Toshiba HDDs straight from Singapore
$100/5TB

>>58082243
Really? I just paid €228 for 2x 3TB WD Red.

Which I'm going to put in a RAID-1 setup, not going to go through this hell again