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NAS drive for Desktop?
I'm thinking about replacing the two 1TB Seagate drives that have
outlasted their 5-yr. warranties in a desktop machine by a 4TB drive. A 4TB Seagate "desktop" drive (actually called "Barracuda" these days) runs at 5900rpm (but they don't tell you that -- and 50+ years ago a reviewer complained that Rolls-Royce did not publish hp figures for their cars, and when he asked them, they replied, "Adequate.") and costs $150. For $10 more, a 4TB HGST NAS drive runs at 7200rpm and has a 3-yr. warranty vs. the Seagate's 2-yr. warranty. Is there a downside to using the NAS drive instead of the "desktop" drive in a desktop machine? I'm not keen to get into the Seagate vs. HGST (now owned by WD) vs. WD argument: you name any brand, and there are people who will never buy one of their drives again. Perce |
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NAS drive for Desktop? -- Correction
On 03/05/2017 05:10 PM, I wrote:
I'm thinking about replacing the two 1TB Seagate drives that have outlasted their 5-yr. warranties in a desktop machine by a 4TB drive. A 4TB Seagate "desktop" drive (actually called "Barracuda" these days) runs at 5900rpm (but they don't tell you that -- and 50+ years ago a reviewer complained that Rolls-Royce did not publish hp figures for their cars, and when he asked them, they replied, "Adequate.") and costs $150. For $10 more, a 4TB HGST NAS drive runs at 7200rpm and has a 3-yr. warranty vs. the Seagate's 2-yr. warranty. Is there a downside to using the NAS drive instead of the "desktop" drive in a desktop machine? I'm not keen to get into the Seagate vs. HGST (now owned by WD) vs. WD argument: you name any brand, and there are people who will never buy one of their drives again. I made a mistake about the Seagate price: it's only $120, so the price differential is $40. And the Seagate has half the cache than the HGST has. Perce |
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NAS drive for Desktop?
On Sun, 5 Mar 2017 17:10:18 -0500, "Percival P. Cassidy"
wrote: I'm thinking about replacing the two 1TB Seagate drives that have outlasted their 5-yr. warranties in a desktop machine by a 4TB drive. A 4TB Seagate "desktop" drive (actually called "Barracuda" these days) runs at 5900rpm (but they don't tell you that -- and 50+ years ago a reviewer complained that Rolls-Royce did not publish hp figures for their cars, and when he asked them, they replied, "Adequate.") and costs $150. For $10 more, a 4TB HGST NAS drive runs at 7200rpm and has a 3-yr. warranty vs. the Seagate's 2-yr. warranty. Is there a downside to using the NAS drive instead of the "desktop" drive in a desktop machine? I'm not keen to get into the Seagate vs. HGST (now owned by WD) vs. WD argument: you name any brand, and there are people who will never buy one of their drives again. Perce IMO, get the HGST from Newegg at $140 each. Get two drives so you can back up one drive to the other. HGST has 3-yr warranty, Seagate has a 2-yr warranty. Seagate has two models, ST4000DM00 (very old model) and ST4000DM05 (newer model). Have been running an HGST for a few years (24/7 power-on), no problems. Seagate put the ST4000DM00 in their USB3 external boxes (GoFlex) years ago. I use one as an external backup device. It runs maybe 20 minutes/month, then disconnected from system. My last 1TB Seagate from 2008 just died. Bought four retail-boxed 1TB then. Have bought four 4TB now to replace them. The 4TB drives today (sub-$150) are cheaper than the 1TB in 2008 ($179 each). I have 3 HGST and one ST4000DM05. HGST is 7200 rpm, Seagate is 5900 rpm. The old 1TB drives were 7200. Both brands of 4TB drives run at about the same temp (30C-32C) in a box with good air flow. |
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