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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Yourname942 on October 01, 2016, 08:10:20 pm
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I plan on eventually having all systems and games up to/including Xbox, PS2, and GC generation of games. My question is: what Hdd brand/capacity would you recommend? (also how can you chain them together?) Thank you.
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I use a Toshiba one. Think its called a canveo or something cant remember.
But they are strong and reliable, high speed and you can buy a nice carry pouch for them.
About £45 off amazon (uk side anyway)
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Stay away from Seagate. They fail every time.
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I now use Western Digital almost exclusively professionally and at home.
Haven't had any 3.5" Western Digital drives go bad on me yet.
Chaining them together? Like with a RAID enclosure?
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Stay away from Seagate. They fail every time.
harddrives come and go. sometimes they have a solid unit, then they release a new size/format and BLAM, back to crap.
obligatory data incoming... it's a little outdated (2015), but will give you an idea...
(https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/blog-q3-stats-table.png)
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I plan on eventually having all systems and games up to/including Xbox, PS2, and GC generation of games. My question is: what Hdd brand/capacity would you recommend? (also how can you chain them together?) Thank you.
This is the best deal around, it's common knowledge in tech circles that these are repackaged Western Digital reds.
6TB for $149.99, great deal.
https://www.amazon.com/5700RPM-Cache-6-0Gb-Internal-Desktop/dp/B00UCP11U6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475522448&sr=8-1&keywords=white+label+hard+drive+6tb
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Stay away from Seagate. They fail every time.
harddrives come and go. sometimes they have a solid unit, then they release a new size/format and BLAM, back to crap.
obligatory data incoming... it's a little outdated (2015), but will give you an idea...
(https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/blog-q3-stats-table.png)
And your point is...? That Seagates are ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. Bingo.
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For internal disks:
Personally I had many Seagate disks in the past and only one had bad sectors but due overheating (a place other hard disk on my Seagate). I had three WD disks, one was 2Tb from black serie and it died, hopefully it's shows real signs of dying so I managed under linux restore most of my data. Now I have one Seagate SV35 and it works great for more than two years.
At work with more than 120 computers only one Seagate died totally while I had couple WD disk with bad sectors and one totally dead. All WD red disks are working fine (working in NASs all the time).
For external disks:
All disks I had (Seagate, WD or any other like pqi) failed after some time or at least shows some problems, especially USB3.0 ones.
My advise is to take some high end/more expensive disks and put in external shell rather buying ready to use external one. Please note that WD external disks are usually green ones (cheapest) and Seagate ones are also most cheapest models.