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Hi All
So my 10tb Hard Drive went down!
Lost some stuff as I hadn't done a recent back up!
It was a Seagate Iron Wolf NAS drive.
Any recommendations for large capacity Internal Hard Drives?
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I don’t have much luck with hard drives either but I do find WDs more reliable then Seagates.
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What you gotta do is periodically either defrag the drive, which takes a long time, or just copy all the files to another drive, erase the drive, and copy them back. (But then you would still need to defrag).
Speed of reading the files will be x4 faster as well as copying because the drive won't go crazy copying everywhere the fragments of data.
When you do a project, you would be better using a SSD drive (even external, use a 1tb or 2tb), and just use the regular drives for archival purposes.
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I had a rep from Seagate send me a free Barracuda drive a few years ago when he saw me on a forum discussing their past as unreliable. After a year the drive started disappearing from my PC so I quickly replaced it.
On someone's recommendation I got a Toshiba. 11 months later I'm starting to get SMART errors.
So while I may have wanted to get away from Western Digital, I have an 8TB WD Black arriving next week.
Server drives like Iron Wolf and WD Red are good in servers and meant to run 24/7, but they aren't intended to be powered up and down a lot like normal home PC.
And of course... always make backups.
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I've been buying WDs for over 15 years now, both external and internal drives haven't failed (yet). I use a "Red" one for archival purposes (slower transfer rate but I rarely access those files), a "Black" for exporting files when working with Premiere and such, "Green" just for dowloading and saving random stuff.
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Western Digital for me, i have well over 100 drives and counting, still hanging in there.
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