New Hard drive

[beau75]

I'm looking for a new 2tb hard drive since my 2 500gb drives are getting full. My budget is about $100 and I have a few ideas but I just wanted a second opinion before I order anything. Here is what I'm looking at...

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[thor220]

Remember that the first one you linked (seagate) doesn't come with a sata cable.

The western digital 2tb green is a bit cheaper a higher rated.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236404&cm_re=western_digital_2tb-_-22-236-404-_-Product

I would recommend that over the seagate drive.

 

[ronintexas]

The WD drive is a better drive in my opinion. I prefer the WD Black drives, but it is $139 for the drive....Remember the green drives have built in "green features" - so if you are using RAID there could be issues.

 

[thor220]

The WD drive is a better drive in my opinion. I prefer the WD Black drives, but it is $139 for the drive....Remember the green drives have built in "green features" - so if you are using RAID there could be issues.

Yeah, WD blacks are as reliable as enterprise drives. I've never had one fail on me yet. They come at quite the price premium though.

 

[ronintexas]

When you look at failure rates - they are measured in MTBF - usually over 1,000,000 hours....1,000,000 hours is 114.155 years of continuous use. Reality is - a good hard drive will last reliably for 5-7 years. 7 years ago - a large hard drive was much smaller than it is today.

 

[f-14]

the seagate is fine, it also comes with good data transfer software from your old drives.
the toshiba has an extra year on the warranty tho.

i've got a pair of WD black 1TB's i've been running since 2010 with out problems

 

[beau75]

Thanks for the responses guys!