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    ytareh's Avatar Senior Member
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    Theyre getting VERY cheap and sooo handy BUT I had one and it failed after hardly a month and ANY Google search yields horror stories of multiple failures...Anyone having much luck with 1-2TB drives?
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    I have 4 2TB drives in my server at home but I RAID them precisely b/c of the problems you mention. So far I have only had 1 fail after running 24/7 for over a year now.

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    I've had 2 drives die on me after 15 years of owning various ones. Both were Samsung, a 250gig died after 18 months, and a 1tb drive died after 2 months (Both within 1 year of each other).

    I've totally lost me lose faith in Samsung, it's a shame they aren't reliable because when they work they are decent, fast and reasonably priced.

    But yeah, I've come across a lot more folk with failed drives as the capacities have increased. It REALLY hits home the importance of backing stuff up.
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    Running a 1TB WD 64mb black caviar for about a year now (OS is on a vertex SSD) about 3-4 hr a day with no issues. Also a 1TB WD 64mb caviar green as a backup on a docking station. Not much use for that one as it's ONLY for backup.

    No issues with either.
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    I think first two replies confirm my concern about massive failure rate in large capacity hdds (25-50% after less than 2 years )Anybody else hasnt had issues ?What make and model?
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    I think this thread is prob important as many will be building new rigs for ClOD and SSDs are still a bit dear for most ...
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    Seagate 1TB running OK for about a year. It's not my boot drive though.
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    I had a 1 TB WD, then two 1 TB Samsungs, all work fine. No experience with 1+ TB stuff, because they when I bought the 1 TB ones, the bigger ones were overpriced.

    One nasty habit of Windows 7 when using multiple HDDs was, however, unearthed quickly after installing it. By default setting, W7 switches off HDDs after 15-20 mins if they are not used, ie. in the case of 3-4 HDDs present in your desktop PC. They DO NOT like it, being switched on and off all the time.. result: a 320 and a 500 Gig older WD are full with bad sectors.. so switch this one off under energy management.
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    How much run time are you guys giving these drives? I'm contemplating acquiring a 1-2 TB drive to be used exclusively for storage, not to be run on anywhere remotely close to a constant basis. Then again, CDs are SO much cheaper... Hmmmm...
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    Originally posted by ytareh:
    Theyre getting VERY cheap and sooo handy BUT I had one and it failed after hardly a month and ANY Google search yields horror stories of multiple failures...Anyone having much luck with 1-2TB drives?
    I've been happy with my internal 1TB Samsung. Its strictly for storage of movies, tv, and sports files that I share P2P. Having filled up two WD Caviar Black 500GB, I didn't see the necessity of spending the extra dollars for the performance they offer in a storage capacity.

    This is what I have, and it had to be purchased locally. http://www.microcenter.com/sin...l?product_id=0340562

    I've always found the newegg feedback to be an excellent indicator of product quality. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...point%20F3%20HD103SJ

    In fourteen years, I've only lost one hd, and that was due to lightening striking my neighbors trees. It also brought an early demise to a Viewsonic crt monitor.
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