ajnl Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 My hard drive broke (link). Tomorrow I'm going to the store to find a new one, any tips on what to look for in a good hard drive? I have about 100 euros I can spend on one, just looking for a 1TB. Any tips or suggestions on which hard drive to go for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiD Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 (edited) Apparently WD and Seagate are pretty decent brands. The last laptop we had, we replaced the hardrive with a seagate 1TB and it lasted well over a year. Western Digital makes a couple decent hard drives, and are usually cheaper to run. Otherwise picking out a hard drive pretty much depends on your needs. Edited January 9, 2015 by SiD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kami Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Just for your information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajnl Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 (edited) Apparently WD and Seagate are pretty decent brands. The last laptop we had, we replaced the hardrive with a seagate 1TB and it lasted well over a year. Western Digital makes a couple decent hard drives, and are usually cheaper to run. Otherwise picking out a hard drive pretty much depends on your needs. I'm looking at this one: link. Well all of my programs, and games are going to be installed on it. No important data or operating system stuff. ========== What about a SSHD? Edited January 9, 2015 by ajnl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elf Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I have 3 WD Black and Green hard drives between 1TD and 3TD and one 2TD seagate. Really good drives. One for OS one for Gaming and one for Back-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krayzie Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I personally prefer Seagate. Have never had a Seagate drive fail on me. Have had my current one for two years, 1TB, and had prior 128GB one that I had for 4 years, and is still running, but don't use anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ol Smoke Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 When I had my PC business, I bought only WD. I bought somewhere around 6500 of them. Over a period of 6 years, I had two failures during warranty period. I have two of them still running after 10 years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanaraud Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I think the pic shows this certain product "Hitachi 3TB Deskstar 7K3000 (HDS723030ALA640)" results: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2089464/three-year-27-000-drive-study-reveals-the-most-reliable-hard-drive-makers.html Other Hitachi and Toshibas are like they are in my understaning. Also try to not take any older WD-s from times there were still floods in Thailand. Newer ones should be ok: Black or Blue ones for performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elf Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 When I had my PC business, I bought only WD. I bought somewhere around 6500 of them. Over a period of 6 years, I had two failures during warranty period. I have two of them still running after 10 years. WD just makes good hard drives. That is why I buy them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajnl Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 Thanks for the help guys. I ended up going with Seagate. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elf Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Thanks for the help guys. I ended up going with Seagate. Good job! Seagate is good one~! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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