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Hard drive comparsion question

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June 22, 2013 2:26:51 AM

I will try and simplify this as best I can.

Ive decided to take a shot and attempt to build my own gaming pc, the parts are listed below:

Rosewill THOR V2 Gaming ATX Full Tower Computer Case, support up to E-ATX / XL-ATX, come with Four Fans - 1 x Front Red LED 230mm Fan, 1 x Top 230mm Fan, 1 x Side 230mm Fan, 1 x Rear 140mm Fan



Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I53570K



LG 24X DVD Burner - Bare Drive 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model GH24NS95 - OEM



Western Digital WD Blue WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM



GIGABYTE GV-N770OC-2GD GeForce GTX 770 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready Video Card



Rosewill CAPSTONE-750 750W Continuous @ 50°C, Intel Haswell Ready, 80 PLUS GOLD, ATX12V v2.31 & EPS12V v2.92, SLI/CrossFire Ready, Active PFC Power Supply



MSI Z77A-GD55 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS



COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 EVO RR-212E-20PK-R2 Continuous Direct Contact 120mm Sleeve CPU Cooler Compatible with latest Intel 2011/1366/1155 and AMD FM1/FM2/AM3+



SAMSUNG 840 Series MZ-7TD250BW 2.5" 250GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)



Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Low Profile Desktop Memory Model BLS8G3D1609ES2LX0



Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Low Profile Desktop Memory Model BLS2K4G3D1609ES2LX0



Arctic Silver Arctic Alumina 1.75g Premium Ceramic, Polysynthetic thermal compound AA-1.75G


Those part's were recommended by a nice guy named QuizziCal on MMORPG.com, which I am thankful for of course.


But here's the part that I did alot of research on this part here- Western Digital WD Blue WD10EZEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - OEM I checked the feedback on it from newegg.com, and numerous people gave it a bad review due to DOA?... which I guess it means it failed/didnt work.
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So I want to know if I can replace that hard drive with this one and still be compatible with the rest of the parts listed above, and that hard drive would be this one-Seagate NAS HDD ST2000VN000 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s Internal Hard Drive

The price is around 40.00 more, and the RPM is lower 5900 I think, but according to the feedback on newegg.com no one has had any DOA's.

I would just rather pay a little more then have to send a defected hard drive back.

Please comment asap only because I want to order this stuff soon.


-Thanks in advance.











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June 22, 2013 7:40:37 AM

Dont use Newegg/Amazon customer reviews as a measure of a units quality. Quite simply, if the unit arrived DOA then you would likely complain, if it didnt then you would just use it. You are just seeing a vocal minority of people complaining.

Chances are the reason why the Seagate NAS drive (which I have never heard of until now) doesnt have any negative reviews is because fewer people bought it, hence less failures. If you have a 1% failure rate (its likely less) on a component, then sell a million of them, that's still 10,000 people who get dead drives.
June 22, 2013 11:44:21 AM

The WD Blue drive has 1359 reviews with only 233 being negative(1 or 2 stars) (~17%), while the Seagate has a whopping 6 reviews, this is primarily due to it being a NAS(Network accessed store) drive so few people have bought it. It will also be significantly slower and notably more expensive than that 1TB WD Blue drive.

For less than the Seagate drive you can pick up a 1TB WD Black drive which is a bit faster than the blue, wayyy faster than the NAS drive, and has a 5 year warranty since you seem to be concerned about failures.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...


It is important to remember that internet reviews only consist of those who were thrilled with their experience or even a little disappointed, the vast majority of users fall in the middle and never make a review because it doesn't mean enough to them. It is also important to remember that nothing has a 0% failure rate, even if you have only a 0.001% failure rate, sell 10 million items and you have 100 upset and vocal customers who are all anyone will hear so always take the reviews with a grain of salt, and realize that half the people on newegg leaving a review aren't nearly as tech savvy as they think they are(especially for PSU reviews!)
June 22, 2013 3:01:06 PM

Well thanks to both of you for replying, I actually decided to just order everything except the hard drive, because I will go to a local pc store and have them test a black 1tb wd hard drive before I buy it. Although the chances are slim that it would be doa if I bought it on newegg.com, I would rather not even take that chance.

Again thanks for replying and sharing your knowledge.
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