Which is Best...Out of these two Seagate or WD [For 24 X 7 Usage]

SahilChopra · Mar 20, 2013

Looking for 24X7 Usage Hard drive (High write WorkLoad) as I am a Heavy Torrent downloader...So my PC is ON Like forever , Downloading Various stuffs at very high speed 12.5MB/s (100Mbps net plan).

So I am Looking For Hard drive Which Can easily run 24X7 ( without noise & heat)...bearing 24X7 read & write Load.

I have shorlisted 2 Types Hard drives From 2 Leading Vendors.

Please Tell which is Best From these two drives :

1)Seagate SV35 Internal Hard Drive (1TB) (ST1000VX000) (SV35.6)
Seagate SV35 Internal Hard Drive (2TB) (ST2000VX000) (SV35.6)
(http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/consumer-electronics/sv35/)

OR

2)WD RE4 Internal Hard Drive (1TB) (WD1003FBYX)
WD RE4 Internal Hard Drive (2TB) (WD2003FBYX)
(http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=30)

PROS & CONS OF BOTH DRIVES

Seagate SV35

PROS
(1) Sata 6Gbps is there
(2) Low Price [Inexpensive]
1TB=$86.37 or $100 & 2TB=$117.09 or 109.99

CONS
(3) Warranty = 3 Years Only /-
(4) Low Demand in Various Online Stores like Amazon & newegg.com

WD RE4

CONS
(1) Only Sata 3Gpbs is there
(2) High Price [Expensive]
1TB=$96.99 or 119.99 & 2TB=$187.25 or $224.99

PROS
(3) Warranty = 5 Years
(4) High Demand in Various Online Stores like Amazon & newegg.com

Please Reply

Thanks in advance

clarkjd · Mar 20, 2013

I think that the warranty length says it all, if you are only looking at reliability. That tells you how long the manufacturer thinks it will last..
Also, While you may not always get what you pay for, you always pay for what you get...

Another thing...I don't think that there is a mechanical hard drive out there that will saturate the 3gb/s SATA2 standard..

Onus · Mar 20, 2013

For a drive in heavy use, warranty is important. I'd go with the WD drives.

spawnkiller · Mar 20, 2013

WD red are made to go in server/NAS and they ensure long term reliability and even at SATA2 (3gbps) you still have about 300mo/s and a HDD is only capable of doing 150-200 in peak and about 80-100 sustained so it's not even a problem...

JackNaylorPE · Mar 20, 2013

Warrantees on HDs today are basically "insurance policies" and mean more for marketing purposes than actual reliability. All it takes for a manufacturer to move say from a 3 year warranty to a 5 year warranty is adding a few bucks the MSRP to cover the increased returns. In general what ya see is:

Budget Consumer - 1 -2 years
Consumer - 2 - 3 years
Enterprise - 5 years

You could go over to storagereview.com and you'll see that the most reliable drive in their database is the Seagate Cheetah .... one of the most unreliable is the WD Raptor. If you were to judge reliability of the entire brand based upon that one model line, you would be grossly misinformed because if you look at other models, you will see that all companies have some stinkers and also all have some great reliable drives.

Even within a line, you see wide variation. I buy a lot of NAS's and most of the ones I have bought came with 7200.10's and 7200.12's....both of which are great drives. The 7200.11 on the other hand was a stinker.

Looking at the RE4 (2GB model), we see that 2 of the 10 in the database failed in the 1st year.

http://www.storagereview.com/php/survey/survey_result_tree.php?mfrID=29&famID=309&modID=1168&k1=uHdG9BGYn6&id=0&ph=

No data available on the SV series

Looking at THG's charts on performance we gain find the RE4 but no SV series. Generally Seagate surface temps are lower than the competitions as is confirmed here:

=on&prod[5355]=on]http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/hdd-charts-2012/compare,2907.html?prod[5605]=on&prod[5355]=on

Note again that I had to use the 7200.14 as the SV series isn't listed.

Finally, the ES series from Seagate is their "enterprise" 24/7 line.

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Which is Best...Out of these two Seagate or WD [For 24 X 7 Usage]

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