is 3T hard drive the worst drive?

brannsiu

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my friend who works for a computer hardware shop (and he is a computer enthusiast) told me that for consumer type of hard drive, hard drive of 3T capacity is the worst drive in terms of design and technology, and he commented that either 1T, 2T or 4T is much better in their durability. He explained with a lot of technical terms but I have forgot most of that.

He concluded that it's only because of marketing reasons (i.e. in order to offer more choices to consumers) and that's why it still exists , and it can still work, but it's more likely to fail more quickly than other hard drives with different capacities.

I am now learning to build up home NAS and RAID for small home storage, and buying more hard drives is going to be necessary. I'd like to know if anyone can validate what my friend said?

Thank you.
 
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Nope, AFAIK there is no such issue with 3tb drives.
In fact, failure depends more on which brand you buy.
Check it out here
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/
Unless he was talking of any particular brand or batch specific issue, where some company uses inferior quality materials for the 3 tb HDD or any particular batch of 3 tb discs of a company is highly susceptible to failure, I find no merit to the comments he made.

Rit_86

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Nope, AFAIK there is no such issue with 3tb drives.
In fact, failure depends more on which brand you buy.
Check it out here
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/
Unless he was talking of any particular brand or batch specific issue, where some company uses inferior quality materials for the 3 tb HDD or any particular batch of 3 tb discs of a company is highly susceptible to failure, I find no merit to the comments he made.
 
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Gathaven

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To be able to correctly debate this, we're going to need the "lots of technical terms that you have forgotten", but without anything to really argue against rather than "3TBs are worse than anything else", I'm going to say I've not experienced this. If you can provide the "technical terms" he used, I'll be able to provide you with a better answer, which might possibly be me agreeing with him.