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  9. Posted

    True, but I also bought a seagate HD and fail after 3 month of use, and believe me if I say to you that I'm almost a obsessed person when it comes to hardware maintenance (I use to defrag my disks all weeks, and run a chkdsk /r at least once a month). However, in my case, the WD is still virgin of errors, that doesn't mean that is absolutely reliable, as you said, but it gave me less trouble than others.

    Just for the record, I have a dual both linux/win 7, and in the beginning I used to have the same disk partitioned for both OS, one with NTFS for windows and other with the usuals linux-swap for memory and EXT3 or  4 (depend on the year) partitions for data, etc. And I transfer data between those two very often. The Seagate fail pretty fast in that task (and I lost data in the process... T-T), the Caviar Black is still in one piece.. I was luck maybe? mmm I think that the quality of the trademark is being a significant factor. Is not the only factor, but yes a something you have to consider carefully.

     

    Nothing like an extra hard drive believe me, it can get lost, it can fall down, anything dude, just keep copies of your stuff and sleep stronger at night.

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    I've been using a 1TB WD Caviar Black for the last 4 year and I didn't have a single problem. Worth every penny.

     

    I will tell you the problem, the problem is the moment something does happen, it's bound to happen one day or another. In Russia there is a proverb: Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Get yourself one more and make a backup just in case. Also always leave 50-100GB free as a margin, I always do that, routinely check for noise and replace, it's cheaper that way, especially if your data is of high personal value. Defrag often and be careful with chkdsk (backup before running), it's known to fuck up some drives.

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    Don't get a big hard drive, compartmentalize and get many, trust me it's so much better to see one of your many 250gb drives die, than a 2TB drive die...


     


    That's also what they do at military bases, they use HESCO bags filled with soil between the barracks to compartmentalize fragmentacion from possible mortar strikes.


     


    Also keep this in mind: constant use can cause damage, you're probably going to spend less time using a hard drive with software and iso files (I assume you're going to use it as installation) than you're going to use a hard drive with porn, movies, tutorials or any other multimedia. I have various hard drives and I ocassionaly make safe copies of my information, I am still unsure wether to send my dead hard drive to a data center so I would rather avoid this happening in the future.


     


    Yo ho fiddly dee!


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