Best hard drive

[Joshua Fredricks]

What would be the best 20 dollar hard drive? Mine is on the way out and I wanted a cheap one to hold me over.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

The requirements ... "best" and $20 .... are kinda conflicting. What capacity is needed ?

http://pcpartpicker.com/product/TWqdnQ/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st3160316cs

http://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#t=5200,5400,5700,5760,5900,7200&sort=a10&page=1

 

[Joshua Fredricks]

The requirements ... "best" and $20 .... are kinda conflicting. What capacity is needed ?

http://pcpartpicker.com/product/TWqdnQ/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st3160316cs

http://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#t=5200,5400,5700,5760,5900,7200&sort=a10&page=1

At least 500 and a wd.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Did you look at the above links ? Cause that's not gonna happen at $20 as evidenced by the 2nd link above. Gonna have to increase your budget by at least 50% .. and that will likely be something "green" and either slow rpm or low performance. Even the Blue has pretty poor performance values... about 40% of the better drives

This may help ya choose:

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/920-6/disques-durs.html

The numbers represent the "real world" failure rates of Hard Drives from each company over the preceding 2 quarters.

- Seagate 0,86% (contre 0,95%)
- Toshiba 1,02% (contre 1,54%)
- Hitachi 1,08% (contre 1,16%)
- Western 1,13% (contre 1,19%)

Rather than the overall rates by company, what really matters is avoiding the specific model numbers which have really high numbers. I'd look to avoid anything over 1.5%