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Post by mobeach on May 30, 2015 14:31:05 GMT -6
Another Western Digital Caviar Blue crapped out on me and it's only a couple years old. What's an affordable HD that I can rely on?
Thanks
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Post by mobeach on May 30, 2015 14:32:31 GMT -6
Thought I'd point out that Windows was not installed on this HD, this HD had my DAW's and music storage. The Hitachi HD with Win 8.1 has been flawless.
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Post by b1 on May 30, 2015 14:43:16 GMT -6
The WD Black Enterprise HDDs are tops in my book... 7200 RPM 64 MB cache. 2 TB for around $130. USD. The Blues and regular Blacks are not as robust, whereas they are consumer grade.
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Post by b1 on May 30, 2015 14:44:49 GMT -6
Also the WD 2 TB "My Book" and such are accidents waiting to happen; IMO.
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Post by jcoutu1 on May 30, 2015 14:51:50 GMT -6
The WD Black Enterprise HDDs are tops in my book... 7200 RPM 64 MB cache. 2 TB for around $130. USD. The Blues and regular Blacks are not as robust, whereas they are consumer grade. These are what I normally spec if going with a platter drive. |
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Post by b1 on May 30, 2015 14:57:48 GMT -6
The WD Black Enterprise HDDs are tops in my book... 7200 RPM 64 MB cache. 2 TB for around $130. USD. The Blues and regular Blacks are not as robust, whereas they are consumer grade. These are what I normally spec if going with a platter drive. I agree. I see those as the best for that format... I do have a reliable Hitachi, but it's no longer available. |
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Post by b1 on May 30, 2015 14:59:29 GMT -6
I basically avoid anything over 2 TB, and do not fill them over 75%.
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Post by mobeach on May 30, 2015 18:15:38 GMT -6
My WD Blue was a 750 GB and it still had tons of room. Maybe I'll check out that Black Enterprise.
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Post by b1 on May 30, 2015 18:35:45 GMT -6
One caveat. I had to buy an AsMedia SATA controller card for around $14... The Drive is SATA 3 (6Gbs) and my Mobo is SATA 2 and wouldn't recognize it. Funny thing, an even older Mobo recognized it right away. It's more of a problem of some MoBos to recognize the disk. www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236522Lol, I just saw your "Thread-killer Sig".... I think we all can easily get a thread killer complex. |
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Post by Randge on May 30, 2015 18:43:07 GMT -6
Also the WD 2 TB "My Book" and such are accidents waiting to happen; IMO. I have over 30 of them and have never had one fail. |
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Post by b1 on May 30, 2015 18:50:18 GMT -6
Also the WD 2 TB "My Book" and such are accidents waiting to happen; IMO. I have over 30 of them and have never had one fail. Out of many different disks over many years, that is the only one that lasted less than a year with very minimal use (not full either). I've been informed by several others that they had the same experience. It's great that you have a different experience. I felt safer putting that out there, based on my experience. |
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Post by Randge on May 30, 2015 22:19:55 GMT -6
I cloud everything along with 3 backups of everything anyway, so I gotta cheap out at some point!
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Post by b1 on May 31, 2015 0:19:41 GMT -6
he he... That strategy works well too.
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Post by ericn on May 31, 2015 11:56:25 GMT -6
I'm a SSD convert for all working drives and a huge fan of the SSDs from Macsales.com. But for long term storage Of projects I admit I just buy refurb 7200 RPM drives mainly Seagate and WD !
Going from the 4 drive slots in the Mac Pro to the single Drive in the MBP is a major change.
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Post by chasmanian on May 31, 2015 12:38:20 GMT -6
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Post by Ward on Jun 1, 2015 9:10:38 GMT -6
ALWAYS always always use Solid state Drives from hereon in now that they're affordable. 500GB drives are best.
With regards to HDD, never fill them beyond 50% capacity or say goodbye to anything remotely close to reasonable access times.
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Post by henge on Jun 1, 2015 9:41:24 GMT -6
ALWAYS always always use Solid state Drives from hereon in now that they're affordable. 500GB drives are best. With regards to HDD, never fill them beyond 50% capacity or say goodbye to anything remotely close to reasonable access times. So your saying SDD for audio as well |
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Post by ericn on Jun 1, 2015 9:56:48 GMT -6
ALWAYS always always use Solid state Drives from hereon in now that they're affordable. 500GB drives are best. With regards to HDD, never fill them beyond 50% capacity or say goodbye to anything remotely close to reasonable access times. So your saying SDD for audio as well The trick is to use SSD as a work drive and system drive then use magnetic for storage / archive! If you do a lot of editing or song writing you realize the speed benigits right away. |
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Post by Guitar on Jun 1, 2015 20:35:14 GMT -6
I've only had one or two hard disk drives fail in my lifetime... I guess I'm lucky!
My next purchase is going to be some SSD for system drives and mobile recording (they can take the SPL that an HDD can't).
Good tip on (not) filling up the drives. I wondered why some of mine were getting so laggy.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2015 21:20:13 GMT -6
Hm, i recently read on zdnet that SSD drives can loose their data after a few days unpowered due to thermical effects.
My SSDs never were unpowered for more than maybe 3 days.
Anyone here ever had something like this happen?
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 2, 2015 12:48:15 GMT -6
I just upgraded my work drives to 3 2TB 7200 RPM Baracuda raided 0 with an 8TB 5400RPM Seagate BU drive. I'm using the Raid set for speed, but have to handle the nightly backups myself because of the nature of dealing with Raid 0. As far as read/write speeds go on the RAID set I saw a near 75% increase in speed. So far PT hasn't given me any issues.
AD
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Jun 2, 2015 13:47:30 GMT -6
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Post by guitfiddler on Jun 2, 2015 17:10:49 GMT -6
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Jun 2, 2015 17:43:55 GMT -6
I just upgraded my work drives to 3 2TB 7200 RPM Baracuda raided 0 with an 8TB 5400RPM Seagate BU drive. I'm using the Raid set for speed, but have to handle the nightly backups myself because of the nature of dealing with Raid 0. As far as read/write speeds go on the RAID set I saw a near 75% increase in speed. So far PT hasn't given me any issues. AD hey bro, don't buy SADgate drives (see the graphs and that article I linked) |
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Post by b1 on Jun 2, 2015 18:29:16 GMT -6
The HGST is a WD consumer type disk. That chart shows some of the HGST as actually being before the HGST branding (if you read the fine print). Warranty says something about a manufacturers confidence. The HGST's on that page are 1-3 yrs warranty. The aforementioned WD Black Enterprise is 5 years... it can be a pig-in-a-poke from different resellers, it seems.
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