Seagate Barracuda 2TB, good HDD?

nyxanna · Jan 30, 2014

I want to buy a new HDD. I was told the Seagate Barracuda is a good one but I want to be sure.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Barracuda-inch-Internal-Drive/dp/B006H32Q3S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391111228&sr=8-1&keywords=Seagate+ST2000DM001

Is this a good HDD? Is there any better I should be buying instead? I heard that WD Black one's are the fastest but they are twice the price and same size.

Seladon-1370374 · Jan 30, 2014

I've got one of those, works very well, and awesome price for the storage capacity.

Stu 95 · Jan 30, 2014

Yeah, seagate make good quality HDD's. That one runs at 7200RPM which is what i recommend. Unless you want to be spending a lot more just go with this. Any difference between HDD's at a similar price is going to be negligible.

killakallies · Jan 30, 2014

Personally I prefer the WD hard drives as I have had the best luck with them but you do have to spend a little more for the performance and reliability.

nyxanna · Feb 2, 2014

I had one more question.
Should I scan the HDD right after I install it to see if there is anything wrong with it? Is there any free programs I can scan it with for bad sectors or anything else that could be wrong? There is Error-Checking in Windows, can I just use that?

fzabkar · Feb 2, 2014

Seagate's HDDs are generally faster than WD's.

However, you need to be particularly careful with Seagate's 2TB drives. Some have 2 platters and 4 heads while the slower ones have 3 platters and 5 or 6 heads.

See http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/crawl_message?board.id=ata_drives&message.id=28513

Dark Lord of Tech · Feb 2, 2014

I own 2 of them , still running perfectly.

killakallies · Feb 3, 2014

It's not a necessity to scan the drive right after installing it as you will know whether it works or not right away. You can if you would like though, if you go with the Seagate drive I would recommend using SeaTools to test the drive I have posted it's link below. If you end up going with a Western Digital Drive I would recommend using their tool set Data Lifeguard Diagnostics which I have also included a link to below.

SeaTools:
http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/

WD Data Tools:
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp

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