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 Post subject: Best and worst Hard Drives Ever! list
PostPosted: June 14th, 2017, 10:53 
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I want to make a list of best and worst hard drives by model and brand, i will like if you friends can share more information with me to update the database.
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Source> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-dri ... tats-2016/
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 Post subject: Re: Best and worst Hard Drives Ever! list
PostPosted: June 14th, 2017, 11:24 
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This has been done before, and IMHO a bit of a waste of time.

The best hard drive can be killed by power failure, dropped, bad connection, fate, no reason, + a heap of other reasons.
Your freind will say "But YOU TOLD ME this was the best hard drive, so I didnt need to backup.. it is your fault I lost data.

similiarly, a hard disk in the "worst" category may run for years no problem.


a much better thing would be to document what the best backup strategy is so that if/when a hard disk dies, you dont lose data. A strategy that says if I lose a disk, who cares.

If you want to go ahead with making a list... 50% will be opinion based on nonsense like "everyone knows seagate is crap" or quote backblaze data from years ago, personal opinion, or even a data lab that had a couple of drives in a row.

When you think of the MILLIONS of drives sold, and the tiny, tiny number you could possibly use as fodder for your list, you will realise it is futile.

That said, I bet there is one or 2 drives many DR Pros would say to not touch with a barge pole.

I would use the time you were going to spend on the list to learn something else.


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 Post subject: Re: Best and worst Hard Drives Ever! list
PostPosted: June 14th, 2017, 18:43 
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HaQue wrote:
50% will be opinion based on nonsense like "everyone knows seagate is crap"


I think it's more like 99% of us would say that :lol:

Drives to avoid, I'll just add this one to the list as it has made up around 20% of our case load the last few years: ST3000DM001

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 Post subject: Re: Best and worst Hard Drives Ever! list
PostPosted: June 15th, 2017, 4:04 
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Everything is the same, no serious differences.
And the best drive is the drive where you can recover your data from. :wink:
So, WD still on top.

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 Post subject: Re: Best and worst Hard Drives Ever! list
PostPosted: June 15th, 2017, 6:20 
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Martin wrote:
And the best drive is the drive where you can recover your data from. :wink:

that's right
therefore, backblaze CAN NOT and will not be an indicator, since all their falling drives will be trashed immediately, and WILL NOT even examined if can be recovered.
theoretically, drives with high failure rates "maybe" can be recovered, and low failure rates doesn't (theoretically only, of course)

the real indication would/should be from DR pros/companies


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 Post subject: Re: Best and worst Hard Drives Ever! list
PostPosted: June 15th, 2017, 7:36 
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jermy wrote:
Martin wrote:
And the best drive is the drive where you can recover your data from. :wink:

that's right
therefore, backblaze CAN NOT and will not be an indicator, since all their falling drives will be trashed immediately, and WILL NOT even examined if can be recovered.
theoretically, drives with high failure rates "maybe" can be recovered, and low failure rates doesn't (theoretically only, of course)

the real indication would/should be from DR pros/companies


But to use as an indicator for purchase?

By the time the data recovery companies get the drives, they probably have some age on them, then you are making a decision about what drive to buy in 2017 from drives that are not even around anymore. Sure they may be similar modell/architecture but many changes in components and revisions of firmware/hardware would have happene.

like testing the last of a model of car for example, where revisions in the models iron out bugs, then you guy buy the updated model based on that and get the first revision of the model with a whole new set of bugs.

I just dont see the value in this list, sorry :)


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 Post subject: Re: Best and worst Hard Drives Ever! list
PostPosted: June 15th, 2017, 8:32 
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IMHO, a logical calculated prediction: a company who sells crap for the last decade, will continue to sell crap

there is a reason that there is a particular company in the market who sells cheap their product


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