• February 27, 2025, 09:52:31 PM
  • Welcome, Guest
Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

This Forum Beta is ONLY for registered owners of D-Link products in the USA for which we have created boards at this time.

Author Topic: Which hard drive is "better" (more reliable & compatible) to get?  (Read 5023 times)

perfectdark

  • Level 2 Member
  • **
  • Posts: 66
Which hard drive is "better" (more reliable & compatible) to get?
« on: February 19, 2010, 09:30:30 PM »
Western Digital Caviar Green (WD20EADS) 2000GB (2TB) SATA 3 Gb/s 32MB (OEM) $179.99 CAD
or
Hitachi Deskstar HD32000 IDK/7K Internal Hard Drive - 2TB, 7200RPM, 32MB, SATA-3G $159.99 ($20 mail-in-rebate)
Logged

The_Tango

  • Level 1 Member
  • *
  • Posts: 16
Re: Which hard drive is "better" (more reliable & compatible) to get?
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2010, 06:48:26 AM »
Not exactly what you are asking for but check out:

http://www.storagereview.com/1000.sr

This still has some useful information.
Logged

gunrunnerjohn

  • Level 11 Member
  • *
  • Posts: 2717
Re: Which hard drive is "better" (more reliable & compatible) to get?
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2010, 07:25:29 AM »
Actually, I'd be considering 5400 RPM drives.  There is no performance advantage to 7200 RPM drives for this box and they consume more power and of course make things hotter inside.
Logged
Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
Remember: Data you don't have two copies of is data you don't care about!
PS: RAID of any level is NOT a second copy.

dgorini

  • Level 1 Member
  • *
  • Posts: 7
Re: Which hard drive is "better" (more reliable & compatible) to get?
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2010, 09:49:45 AM »
I used to be a Seagate guy, but not anymore... Whatever you do, just avoid the Seagate LP drives. I had terrible experience with those failing after few days.

Currently I have 2 WD Green 1.5Tb and they are working flawlessly. Another DNS-323 I have 2 WD 500GB and they are also in perfect shape.
Logged

Clayton

  • Level 3 Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 162
Re: Which hard drive is "better" (more reliable & compatible) to get?
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2010, 06:59:46 PM »
I use to be a hard core Western Digital fan but when 2 of my 300GB VelociRaptor drives packed up within 6 months of each other I moved to Seagate, have 2x 1.5TB drives in my DNS-323 and one of these did pack up after 1 month due to heat issues, but the replacement has been in there for 6 months get trashed and am having no issues.
I have 2x 1TB Seagate ES drives in my destop running raid 1 and they seem to be working fine.
So go for the Seagate ES editions, any drive models ending is NS are targeted towards Enterprises which will last a lot longer but they are twice the price.
I think the 5400RPM drives only run 1.5GB SATA I not SATA II, but correct me if I'm wrong.
Logged

gunrunnerjohn

  • Level 11 Member
  • *
  • Posts: 2717
Re: Which hard drive is "better" (more reliable & compatible) to get?
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2010, 05:39:56 AM »
Actually, 1.5ghz interface is more than sufficient for this NAS, so even if that is true, it doesn't make any difference in this context. ;)
Logged
Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
Remember: Data you don't have two copies of is data you don't care about!
PS: RAID of any level is NOT a second copy.