WD Black Series VS Seagate Barracuda?

[Amberr]

Hello everyone. I am seeing a pretty large price gap between the two. They seem to have the same specs. Could someone tell me if it is just paying for the brand, or if there is really a reason to pay more for the WD?

WD BLACK SERIES WD2003FZEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

 

[Greenpedro5]

The black is slightly better you also get 5 years warrenty its alot more rugged and really good drive. It has slightly higher performance from personal experience. Even though it is slightly better it is not noticable. The segate has better squentital performance while the WD is better random so it depends what ypu are doing with it.

 

[Amberr]

Okay, thank you. I am wondering if there is enough of a difference to justify the massive cost jump? You think the segate will do just fine in a gaming computer made on a budget? (($900 soft cap))

 

[Greenpedro5]

Yeah dont worry you will be fine as i said not noticeable difference.

 

[Pinhedd]

Hello everyone. I am seeing a pretty large price gap between the two. They seem to have the same specs. Could someone tell me if it is just paying for the brand, or if there is really a reason to pay more for the WD?

WD BLACK SERIES WD2003FZEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive

Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

The WD2003FZEX is a newer drive which performs slightly better. Historically the Western Digital Black series is the best of the non-enthusiast hard disk drives.

I've used a large number of drives from both manufacturers, and in my experience Western Digital drives are less prone to failure. I have seven Western Digital HDDs in my PC (two WD Black 1TB, one WD Blue 1TB, and four WD Green 2TB) and have had no problems with any of them going on several years.

I have a rackmount server in a datacenter in Chicago that shipped with two Seagate Barracuda 500GB that both died after 3 years. They were replaced with a Barracuda 2TB that died after only a month, which was replaced with yet another Barracuda 2TB that has had some intermittent connectivity issues and a second Barracuda 2TB in RAID-1 for good measure.

As always, YMMV

 

[Greenpedro5]

Haha i got one of the western digital red drives clicked after two weeks i guess its down to personal preferance but there is not a moticeable difference between drive at the end if the day its your choice. Got a new like but had the same segate drives for 6 years nit a hitch aha and they are in a dell poweredge and hp proliant aha

 

[Amberr]

Okay, thanks lots! I will go with the cost effective one for now. And upgrade later on. I would like to get a 4TB one down the road anyway. =) ((Or maybe a second 2TB... Or maybe 2 4TB!!!!!!!!))

 

[Greenpedro5]

Would it be possible to be selected as best answer im one badge off my storage expert thanks and i hope it goes well in the future i recommedn adding an ssd more than anything!

 

[Greenpedro5]

Thanks alot!

 

[Pinhedd]

Would it be possible to be selected as best answer im one badge off my storage expert thanks and i hope it goes well in the future i recommedn adding an ssd more than anything!

Congrats, but in the future please don't ask for BAs. I'll let this one slide, but typically such requests get deleted, and accompanying posts may get yanked as well.

 

[Greenpedro5]

Okay dokey