Re: Good quality 2tb SATA hard drives
- From: "larry moe 'n curly" <larrymoencurly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 03:31:51 -0700 (PDT)
Daniel Prince wrote:
Does any company currently make good quality two terabyte SATA hard
drives? I have read that both Seagate and Western Digital now have
severe quality problems and that Hitachi and Samsung have been
bought up by Seagate and Western Digital.
Are there any reasonably priced drives that will last several years
and keep my data safe?
Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi, Samsung -- not one I've bought has
failed (but I back up like crazy anyway).
If you're using a version of Windows older than Vista, like XP,
Seagates make the only hard drives wtih 4KB sectors that don't need
their partitions to be aligned to prevent slow writes. OTOH it's not
hard to create 4KB aligned partitons.
One Russian data recovery firm liked Hitachi best, but a French data
recovery firm said they were the worst. You may want to search the
forums at HDDguru.com because many of the people there are in the HD
repair and data recovery business, but all I noticed was that Samsungs
were the easiest to reassemble, WDs the hardest (might affect the cost
of data recovery, but I don't know). Otherwise they don't seem to
consider any brands or current models inferior.
I won't miss Samsung USA tech support, which seemed clueless and
incapable of doing anything but giving out RMA numbers. They didn't
know the difference between hard disks and optical disks ("I have
excellent training."), nor were they aware of bugs in their EStools
diagnostic (fixed) or the firmware of early HD204UI 2TB drives
(sometimes caused data loss with queued commands) and newer SATA III
drives (bug prevented recognition by some controllers).
.
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