Good price for 3TB hard drive?

[Ryan_78]

Hey I just got offered a 3TB used hard drive for $45 bucks, it's a Seagate 3TB barracuda. Is this a good price nowadays? I haven't been in the PC market for a while

 

[jesse13williamson]

It is a good price, however the Seagate 3TB Barracuda is well known to be a pretty unreliable hard drive, sometimes dying within months. If it's used then I wouldn't go for it, but if it's brand new then it's up to you. Although you should back-up all the data that you aren't prepared to lose. I'm not saying that it will necessarily fail for you, the general consensus is that it's not a good reliable long-term hard drive.

Hope this helped!

 

[USAFRet]

well...seeing as the 3TB Seagate's were at the absolute bottom of any reliability charts, by a wide margin, and seeing as it is a used drive,
I wouldn't.

Just don't use it for anything critical.

 

[seagate_surfer]

Hello Ryan_78, the best way to know if the drive is working order is to run Seatools on it as this is the designed testing software for Seagate drives. Third party software's, do not include thresholds and other attributes that are proprietary to Seagate.

 

[Scott_130]

I'd play it safe with a WD 2TB HDD They are much more reliable or get a WD 2TB + WD Caviar blue 1TB. They are secondhand but good as i use that configuration.

 

[enforcerdestroyer]

Personally, I wouldn't go for a 3TB drive, especially a used one. It's best that you get a 2TB 7200rpm instead, and if you really want more than 2TB, you could go for either a 2TB 7200rpm x 1TB 7200rpm, or a 2TB 7200rpm x 2TB 7200rpm. It will cost you a bit more for one 2TB drive, but at least it guarantees longer usage of the hard drive which is definitely worth it. Overall, if you're willing to do the gamble, you could go for the 3TB, or if you want to play it safe, go for something else.

 

[mdd1963]

the 3TB models in particular from a few manufacturers were ...a bad size to have, seeming to suffer from failures at 2x-3x the standard rates of failure compared to smaller or even larger drives....

Go figure...