Recommend a SATA Hard Drive

Internal one wd blue are suppose to be good, better get external wd elements external is good but other offering by wd not great in external

my 2 wd external not.elemnts crashed already !

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@Gokul Kannan yes, I have seen that. But unfortunately, they don't deliver in my area right now (Mumbai).

anant.del said:

Internal one wd blue are suppose to be good, better get external wd elements external is good but other offering by wd not great in external

my 2 wd external not.elemnts crashed already !

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Thanks for your review...
I wanted a drive as an add-on to the one on desktop. It already has 500gb ssd with 320gb Seagate drive. I already have external HDD from HP, Seagate. My experience with external ones has been negative.. my 2 external drives giving up on me. I think due to this lockdown there is going to be shortage in the market for quality hard drives.

Ya I am waiting for external SSD to drop drastically in price, I am need of some more tb sapce too.

Lamborghini said:

Can anyone suggest a good 2tb sata hard drive. I was looking for p-300 from Toshiba before it got sold out from Prime, mdcomputers. I am not going for Seagate (reliability more important than cost, already lost 2 Seagate drives), Toshiba seems gone. WD offering only 5400rpm.

Can anyone share their experiences with WD? I come from a time when everyone was bashing WD due to their reliability, high failure rates.

Also if anyone knows which other reliable hard drives manufacturers are available in the market?

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ive also lost seagate drives due to not replacing a failing UPS battery fast enough (mea culpa!). My most recent one is a WD Blue. Which hasn't had any issues since the last year. Since you already have a primary 500Gb SSD, the 5400 rpm would not be as noticeable in most cases.

wait wait wait..please elaborate on this (I've lost 5 of them):

ive also lost seagate drives due to not replacing a failing UPS battery fast enough

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eriek_halenx said:

ive also lost seagate drives due to not replacing a failing UPS battery fast enough (mea culpa!). My most recent one is a WD Blue. Which hasn't had any issues since the last year. Since you already have a primary 500Gb SSD, the 5400 rpm would not be as noticeable in most cases.

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I primarily want it as a storage unit for movies and other stuff. Do you have any idea or any link which shows as to how much would be the difference. Any experience with other drives?

You'll get only 5400rpm drives in WD.
7200 rpm drives of Seagate are available but don't even touch it with a 10 foot pole.
I have had too many dead Seagate drives in my life.
Go with wd or Toshiba.
Hitachi drives were also good but they were acquired by WD.

WDs are available at 7200 rpm,am i missing something?

@Realme Currently unavailable due to chaos in the global supply chain.

Lamborghini said:

I primarily want it as a storage unit for movies and other stuff. Do you have any idea or any link which shows as to how much would be the difference. Any experience with other drives?

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@Lamborghini , as per links like What’s the difference between 5400 and 7200 RPM hard drives? • Pureinfotech, direct copy between two 7200 rpm disks will be 20% faster. So, for a normal usage storage as a movie store, you wont see a noticeable difference.

eriek_halenx said:

Since you already have a primary 500Gb SSD, the 5400 rpm would not be as noticeable in most cases.

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Lets assume some gaming use (or some application with a large data.) Data currently being used by the GPU is in its own memory. Rest of the data loaded maybe in the RAM. If the RAM is full, the loaded data is swapped to the pagefile. If one already has an SSD, like you, its optimal to keep the pagefile in the SSD drive itself. So the running performance would not have a difference. The inital loading from 7200 rpm drive will definitely be faster.

Realme said:

wait wait wait..please elaborate on this (I've lost 5 of them):

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😅 @Realme, as you might know, UPS batteries need to be replaced in about 3y. Harddisks have some magnetic head flying above the disk reading the data. When the electricity goes off, it crashes, and causes bad sectors, which are unusable data storage areas. While harddisks are resilient, and come with some 'free' sectors that can be remapped, a large number of badsectors eventually causes failure. JFYI, one could do a 'SMART test' to estimate a HDD health. If the test is not healthy, it maybe wise to take backups of essential data.

@eriek_halenx
Would it make sense to go for a 7200 rpm drive given the fact that I am on Sata 1.5 and not 3. My system is an old rig and I primarily use it for watching videos on YouTube or some basic browsing. It's mostly my entertainment machine.

The reason this cropped up in my mind is that I am not getting full potential of SSD, pretty obvious as I am on 1.5. So if I am going for a slower drive then it would, in practicality, perform all the more slow due to my motherboard limitations. So, it would make sense to go for a high speed drive. I am sorry, I should have mentioned this earlier.. it's an important information.
This is what I think, what about you? Or anyone else?

I'm not sure about the sata difference @Lamborghini. But as per this link HDD on SATA I (1.5 Gbps) it should be okay.

That being said, performance would depend on the slowest component in the chain. If your motherboard does Indeed bottleneck, a supposedly 20% faster 7200rpm drive won't help imho.