/hdg/ - Hard Drive General

>>59404904
>hard drive manufacturers, quality of their products
>how do you compare WD with Toshiba?

It's silly to bother trying to ascertain whether brand X is more reliably than brand Y. All of them have had occasional dud models, and all of them have a certain percentage that fail. Buy the cheapest $/TB drives you can get, and trust redundancy and backups to protect your data instead of brand-whoring.

HDDs: WD Red and Black yes, blue and green no. Toshiba no.

Always buy an SSD from a memory manufacturer like Samsung, never a drive manufacturer. Avoid Seagate and OCZ like teh plague. my $0.02

>>59404958
false; this pajeet does not know what he is speaking

>>59404998
>blue and green no.
Why not?

>>59404904
Is it true that magnetic storage is relatively inert while in storage, while flash storage slowly leaks electrons from the gates when unpowered?

>>59405049
green is this weird power saving model, and blue is pleb edition they put in laptops for people who can't read specs

blacks are 7200, lots of power, but damn nice. reds for NAS 5400, low power, turn on media player caching and you're good

>>59405057
Yes. Some guy posted a chart, flash leakage is determined by temp during use and temp during storage. Data lasts longer when hot while active and cold while off. Super cooled (while active) memory that's stored over 55C can lose its data in as little as a week.

>>59404958
Listen to this guy. hdds will last a long time if you use proper cooling, don't keep the room with the pc hot like an oven, or try to do work on the inside of the pc while it's powered on. that being said, always have backups of your data cause hdds will die/data get's deleted,etc and most time your drive will die without letting you know ahead of time (you go to turn on pc and, nothing, just a blinking cursor, or some other error). Also when installing drives in a case, always leave a free bay in between so air can flow around them if you can.

>>59404904
>how do you compare WD with Toshiba
Well, I bought a Toshiba 1TB drive and it was faulty. Started reporting errors every now and then, had super slow read and write speeds, turned itself off randomly.

I replaced it with a WD Black but it's too early to say if it's better or worse. All I can say at this stage is that it's far louder

>>59405133
Blue 1TB's are also 7200RPM though anything above 1TB is 5400RPM

>>59405351
Black is higher performance and noise, thus why it's more expensive

Blue isn't inherently bad

>>59404904
Who makes the best external hard drives?
Currently I have a 500gb toshiba canvio slim and its pretty gud, though I'm thinking about upgrading capacity. Any recommendations? I'd like them to be as slim as this one.

Who cares?

Just back your shit up religiously, and it doesn't matter what you use for mass storage.

>>59405133
They'd be ok for backing shit up though.

>>59404904
Backblaze year-end report especially for WD Red is concerning, I just bought 3TB WD Red 8 months ago,am I fucked?

>>59409097
Just make sure you have good backup in case of failure, that for all drives.