Best 3TB Internal Hard Drive: Seagate vs. Competitors - Recommendations for Older Models

Question

looking for an internal disk ~ 3 TB of solid one that is more than 3 years old - please advice
I have always bought Seagate, I have an old, solid 500GB (ST3500418AS), which is 12 years old and still hides without a problem, although some errors appear in SMART
and a few years ago I also bought a seagate, although an external 2 TB drive for usb 3.0 (STBV2000200) and I just had this drive ... and it lasted 4 years

gradek83 · Accepted Answer

Justify it? As for me, the lack of moving parts in the SSD is its PLUS.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

So for my part, I would focus my attention on this disk:
Link
The price is reasonable, it is not a line of environmentally conscious products and comes with 64MB of cache. This should meet your expectations, although as I wrote at the very beginning, the defectiveness of hard drives is almost completely random (except for the actual sales of whole series of products).
And as gradek83 wrote, even a lifetime warranty is associated with data loss at the time of failure.

Nevertheless, based on many years spent with WD drives, I recommend this brand (except for the GREEN, ECO line).

Anonymous · Answer

Hello.
What is this drive for? Ordinary data warehouse or something more industrial?
Before reading any statement, be aware that hard drives are a topic that can attract comments that a given company is hopeless because they have a bad model. All companies have a hard time with this and there are no indestructible drives.
Regarding the question itself, you haven't written what your budget is, but if you have enough cash, I highly recommend the WesternDigital Purple Drive:
Link
If you prefer something a bit cheaper, I think Toshiba will be your best bet, specifically this model:
Link

Regardless of the company, I'd rather beware of "ECO", "GREEN" drives or anything else related to energy saving in your place.
Generally, disks with a capacity of several terabytes are equipped with a pair of plates, but the principle is one - the fewer plates / heads, the better - fewer moving parts = lower failure rate.

gradek83 · Answer

As for the 3.5 disk, the WD4005FZBX 5-year warranty, but to tell the truth, what if you will have a lifetime warranty, and damaging the disk of lost data, no disk manufacturer will recover, only a new disk will give if they accept the warranty. Anyway, as a portable disk, I would advise SSD more resistant to shocks and falls, but you know that the dream increases adequately with the capacity.

Anonymous · Answer

An SSD will be a hit in the foot if this 3 TB of data is constantly on the move. That's why I asked the author what the disk was for.

Anonymous · Answer

No moving parts and read / write speed are a huge advantage of SSD drives - there is no doubt about that. On the other hand, the durability of SSD vs HDD - with solid data exchange on the disk, SSD returns on the shield.
It's quite late, so instead of translating, I throw up some links:
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In short, I have had an SSD on the MLC bone for a year. It has a capacity of 128 GB, is 80% loaded forever, and is loaded with a 6 GB paging file.
NAND lifetime is 94 out of 100%, daily data exchange is negligible, so assuming that the author is looking for a disk that he uses every day, a 3 TB SSD may not be 3-4 years old.

EDIT: My conclusion is this:
If the disk is to be a storage of permanent data - you do not need SSD speed (apart from the huge cost of a 3 TB SSD).
If the drive is going to be home to active data with this amount of data, the longevity of the SSD will be a big downside.

Therefore, I would advise HDD in both of the above-mentioned scenarios. However, this is only my opinion, based on my knowledge and experience. It is worth waiting for others to express their views.
Greetings.

enhanced · Answer

Hehe Funny these 3TB SSD tips ... no matter if portable or not. Nothing indicates that the author can afford such an SSD to transfer data.

@Falconett
I don't really understand the point of using HDD if data is to be used heavily? It makes no sense whatsoever. That's what SSDs were made to use and not get tired of with HDD.

6GB swapa what? WHAT where for what? Can't you afford RAM or what? Wasting swap space so much?

I have a couple of years old kingston hyperx 120GB and recently gave him a rest. It was also rather constantly full and nothing happened to him. Saving SSD does not make sense - you have to use it as much as possible because we pay a lot of money for it, not to save it and it was nice on paper.

Anonymous · Answer

The author has not yet had time to say why he needs such a large disk and what budget he has. Personally, I think that some active data can be successfully populated on HDD, although I meant industrial solutions, for example, recording reception for up to 10 CCTV cameras. The author did not mention the speed requirement, only the endurance of the disk. If you absolutely have to check someone's wallet, I explain that I'm a poor man and can't afford the amount of RAM I need.

marcinoxd · Answer

thanks for such an interest in the subject

I do not need a disk to store data, also at super speed, as in SSD disks, I do not need a standard disk, it is to be used mainly for storing movies, recordings, images, also quite large files. And a few games, also large files.
The budget is not rather limited, but I would not like to overpay again, so 400-500 PLN, I think it will be the optimal amount. It is known that nothing is forever, I would like to find such a solid disk as I have now, the 500GB Seagate I wrote about above - I am really happy, but it is slowly coming to an end after 12 years, so I am looking for a replacement, although more capacious.
And I am asking for advice not to cut like last time, for about 330 PLN 2TB, which fell after 4 years - probably the domain of external drives has USB? have a shorter service life?
so now I prefer ext. 3.5 "- I am not going to move the disk, it will be in the PC

I have an SSD drive, a small 120 GB for the system and programs. EYE TRION 100.

gradek83 · Answer

I recommend these:
WD BLACK PERFORMANCE DESKTOP HARD DRIVE
WD4005FZBX
WD4004FZWX

Only these PLN 400-500 may not be enough, prices start from PLN 700.
5-year warranty and 4TB, not 3, no 3TB.

Check prices at seagate EXOS 7E8 models
https://www.seagate.com/pl/pl/enterprise-storage/enterprise-models/?mod
They also offer a 5 year warranty.

Or, like a colleague above, I have a NAS drive in QNAP and it's OK.

marcinoxd · Answer

I looked through the disks,
gradek83 yes, prices are higher, I feel a pity to spend so much on the disk, unless it's really worth it? in order not to follow the cunning again he loses 2x

Falconett found some negative reviews for this drive so I started looking for one without those and found
WD PURPLE 3TB 30PURX 3.5 '' (WD30PURX) I have been to various stores and nobody complained about it, but what do you think about it as specs?
Noteworthy, it has a speed of 5400 / min, but will this be noticeable in normal use, or will it reduce wear even more? from what I read, it is dedicated to collecting data from monitoring, so would it be good for me?
As I mentioned before, I need it for data storage, sometimes launching a game

marcinoxd · Answer

I'm adding a link and raise the topic

gradek83 · Answer

I have no opinion about these disks, they may be cheaper in price, but as for me they are slow at such revolutions per second, if I'm not mistaken, max 60-70MB / s at 7200 130-140MB / s.

WD30PURZ
WD30PURX
The price does not exceed PLN 400, I do not know how the NAS has a 3-year warranty (RED)
Or pay extra PLN 100 and buy GOLDA WD2005FBYZ or BLACK WD2003FZEX only 2TB

As little space as possible, there is always a CLOUD storage option as long as you have a good UPLOAD

marcinoxd · Answer

i found speed so it doesn't look bad although I wonder and I can't find info about this series anywhere, what is the difference between Z and X on one page I read that The X-series has speeds from 5,400 to 7,200 rpm The Z series only has a speed of 5,400 rpm, but that was customer opinion So maybe this speed is what this model X is doing gold series - high prices because the cache is higher, the minimum is 128 - I do not need it black-hmm series, similar, but hard with the availability of 3GB or actually no

Anonymous · Answer

The speeds you found don't have to be reliable. It's hard for a 5400 rotational speed disk to keep a steady write or reading above 140 MB / s. On the other hand, reading from several cameras at the same time requires permanent recording.
You wrote that you do not care about SSD speed, but when copying data of 100+ GB PURPLE it can be tiring.
Opinions about this disk are hard to find, because the main application is industrial, and where something in bulk goes, few people will want to give feedback to all purchased products.

After all, for a price of up to PLN 450, I would focus my attention on these two drives:
1) Link
2) Link
The choice is theoretically large, but the rejection of 7200 RPM equipment limits the choice to just a few pieces. Only amounts from PLN 700 open a new segment that was replaced by gradek83.
Greetings.

marcinoxd · Answer

The speeds I found were 1st better, there are many more and they coincide. I also read that the latest 5400 RPM disks with high-density platters often provide similar, or even better performance than the 7200 RPM models, and for example Seagate stopped producing 7200RPM disks for laptops in one year (as the first).
In addition, the differences in the Number of revolutions / min comparison The mean delay [ms] is as follows:
5 400 5.55
7 200 4.16
10,000 3 so the differences are not great.
At the same time, such drives are usually quieter, more energy-efficient and less prone to mechanical damage (and I just care about endurance)
ps in Toshiba P300 I have not found mtbf anywhere and I wonder about this "head parking technology", about which they wrote that they want to turn it off so that it does not knock every now and then

gradek83 · Answer

I have contact with these disks, they are MULLES. They are pressed into laptops because they are enegro economical and cheaper, and this in most cases is the reason that the NEW equipment is worse than a 10-year-old laptop. Recently, I replaced 8 such disks and took them away by hand. For this, forgive yourself these speeds and buy wd30efrx for 3 years, you will have peace of mind, as I mentioned, how will the data fall, and so you will not recover as long as the damage is specific, but you are aware that during this period you can have a new disk even if a bad sector appears .

marcinoxd · Answer

WD30EFRX - these opinions from the link below put me off quite a bit: / that I'm starting to wonder about this BLACK / GOLD series and a 5-year warranty

Dariusz iD · Answer

External drives have such a problem that they fail due to overvoltage in the usb interface, or from overvoltages from motherboards. The only thing you need to do as a result of a failure is to recover data, create new partitions under disk management in win, when they are invisible or impossible - remove the disk from the case, connect it to sata and create new partitions. After such failures, external drives are fully functional. Of course, if there is a guarantee, advertise it first. Old CDs, computers, remove any discs will break.

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