I'm considering several 2TB hard drives for an upcoming build. It will be a secondary storage drive, with the system and any files that need fast access on a 1TB M.2 SSD.
There seem to be three consumer-level drives with a five-year warranty: WD Black, Seagate Barracuda Pro, and Seagate FireCuda. Right now I'm favoring the FireCuda because it's the cheapest of these, even if the small SSD cache doesn't provide a significant performance advantage.
Since performance isn't critical, I'm wondering whether the 5-year warranty on these "performance" drives actually means they're better designed, better engineered, and more reliable than cheaper "mainstream" drives that have only two-year warranties.
Another possibility is the WD Red, priced between the "performance" and "mainstream" drives, with a 3-year warranty. I'm actually using one of them as a single desktop drive in my current system. I got it 4 years ago because it had a 3-year warranty, and the WD Black was quite expensive at the time. It's not the fastest drive I've owned, but it is cool and quiet.
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There seem to be three consumer-level drives with a five-year warranty: WD Black, Seagate Barracuda Pro, and Seagate FireCuda. Right now I'm favoring the FireCuda because it's the cheapest of these, even if the small SSD cache doesn't provide a significant performance advantage.
Since performance isn't critical, I'm wondering whether the 5-year warranty on these "performance" drives actually means they're better designed, better engineered, and more reliable than cheaper "mainstream" drives that have only two-year warranties.
Another possibility is the WD Red, priced between the "performance" and "mainstream" drives, with a 3-year warranty. I'm actually using one of them as a single desktop drive in my current system. I got it 4 years ago because it had a 3-year warranty, and the WD Black was quite expensive at the time. It's not the fastest drive I've owned, but it is cool and quiet.
Opinions?
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