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hi guys
i want buy a new HDD for PC but I confused...
I use a Maxtor 80 GB IDE for 14 years, one time (3-4 years ago) my maxtor's board burned and I repair it (my data NOT loss) I trust Maxtor

One person say WD in better, other one say Seagate is better. Also HITACHI and TOSHIBA and HGST in available! on person say his WD HDD damaged in 3 month and other say his seagate HDD damaged in 3 month year

Regardless of brands i thought best HDD is HDDs for CCTV because this HDDs can work 24h/7D, without any problem...

I think WD and Seagate are the same (same is TP-Link and D-Link ADSL modems!) and NOT very significant! because the HDD technology is one technology...
I asked my question from my Maxtor repairman and he answer me WD Purple is suitable for me... I search about this: use CCTV surveillance HDD on PC, and I realized that, HDD's firmware NOT suitable for PC uses, but CCTV's HDD rapid than and reliable than PC's HDD!!! ok persons go buy CCTV's HDD and why manufacturers produce PC's HDD!?


And my other question, why Seagate NOT printed RPM on HDD's label!? and when I search is Seagate site, in Performance tab write "Multi-Tier Caching technology" instead of write RPM!
how can i find Seagate RPM without connect HDD to PC!?


Please help me about
Thanks all
 
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Wulffz


Everyone's experience with a product is different, so trusting statistics isn't really going to help you deside. I'd say just buy the one that looks best to you.
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The thing I would suggest to you is the following.
If you need an HDD for games and other programs, then go for a WD Blue drive.
But if it's a drive purely used for storing pictures, video's and such, then go for a WD Red drive.

Hardware nowadays has a slight chance of going bad. So ofcourse people will say that their WD drive failed. But you have warranty for that. It's nothing that you should generalize. I have a 1TB WD Blue Drive for all of my games and programs. It works just fine.

Hope I could help you with this.
 
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It's WD for me over Seagate/Maxtor every time.

Even though two competing brands use the same technology, they aren't necessarily built to the same degree of quality, and that's certainly true of Seagate versus WD. One clue is that Seagate ones are cheaper than WD equivalents, they need that price advantage because of the bad reputation that brand has.

I've had many more Seagate drives fail than WD ones long before they should have failed.

I only buy WD HDDs now, I have 3 WD externals 6 years old, no problem with them.
Compare that to the 3 Seagate's I had before that, they only lasted 2 years.

Of course you'll get different recommendations/opinions because everyone's experience is different.
But I'd like to bet that WD comes out on top generally.
 
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WD purple is a very slow, reliable drive. I wouldn't recommend it for everyday use though.
HGST, Toshiba, WD and Seagate are all very good but certain Seagate ones have been known to fail.

I am very happy with my Toshiba P300 for media storage.

Every company makes good and bad products. I've had a Seagate outlive a WD before.

 
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Purple is Slow than Blue? but i see two different speed test, and in both test purple HDD is rapid than Blue, write speed and read speed:
http://www.pcquest.com/surveillance-vs-desktop-hdd-choose-wisely-to-get-best-performance/
https://storageservers.wordpress.com/2014/12/08/difference-between-a-normal-hard-drive-and-surveillance-hard-drive/

average result in here show WD in better, but when I see BackBlaze report, it show HGST and Seagate lower fails than Toshiba and WD...

Please see it:
https://www.wdc.com/products/internal-storage/wd-blue-pc-desktop-hard-drive.html#WD10EZEX
WD NO made 2TB Blue HDD with 7200RPM!?!?!?!?
 
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Everyone's experience with a product is different, so trusting statistics isn't really going to help you deside. I'd say just buy the one that looks best to you.
 
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this is how WD designed for a number of reasons their Product line very specifically.

OS WD SSD
Gaming WD Black
workstation and storage WD Blue
Video CCTV Station recording WD Purple.
NAS Workstation WD RED

The thing is stats on a hard drive is only part of the experience, can you run a normal pc on a red or purple drive sure, will it outperform a Black hdd.. no.


 
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yes, NOT think about it
Stranger than that WD NO made Blue HDD 2TB 7200 RPM, All seagate SATA 6 GB/s is 7200 RPM and no any 5400 RPM HDD! (All is 7200RPM: ST3000DM008, ST2000DM006, ST1000DM010, ST500DM009,ST2000DM007,ST3000DM009,ST3000DM001 ,ST2000DM001 ,ST1000DM003 ,ST500DM002 ,ST320DM000 ,ST250DM000ST3000DM002 ,ST2000DM002 ,ST1000DM004)

 
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it sounds like your looking for storage drive...

2TB 7200 RPM Drive list
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4TB 7200 RPM List
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yealp



yes. All drives die, but it is important that our drives die in 1-2 years or die in 12 years...

OK, today, I am going to buy, my choice is Seagate 1TB 7200 RPM (ST1000DM010) OR WD Blue 1TB 7200 RPM (WD10EZEX)

Thanks All
 
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