>>1834 >Seagate Barracuda HDD >Slow Honestly, the Ironwolf line would be better for normal use. Prices can vary and some can be noisy, but they work like a performance HDD in a personal use case. Those "green" hard-disks are really just slow as molasses. If you really want speed, you should either get a 7200rpm hard-disk or a M.2 storage key.

>>1834 SeaGates are cheap and designed to be good for bulk buys. If you want reliability, go with WD or Hitachi. If you want speed, grab an SSD and use it as a cache for that drive. If you're that concerned with performance, especially write performance, make sure the drives aren't shingled.

>>1836 >>1844 Thanks for the tips pals. Next time I'll probably buy a WD Red for a few extra bucks.

I got a 1TB 5400rpm 2.5" drive and put it in an Insignia enclosure two years ago, and now I think it's failing. It makes and audible ping! noise when I connect it and when files are read adn written transfered. How fucked is it?

>>1856 Backup your data. It's still safe to use but the issues will only get worse from now on The next sign will be your system will stop being able to create files on it or start being very slow out of nowhere. Also the noises are gonna be louder and louder It will reach a point where you can't even recover files from it so don't wait until you reach this step

>>1857 That was my plan anyway, I just wasn't sure how bad things were since I didn't see a ping! noise referenced in any of the material that I found online about hard drives failing, just info about grinding and clicking noises. Thank you.

Shit, maybe this is better off for the consumer advice thread but whatever. Would either the Western Digital Black or Blue line be considered better than Seagate's Barracuda by anyone here?

>>1863 The main issue with WD is how they lie about which drives are shingled. Do some research on the model you're buying and make sure it's not shingled, unless you play to use it for cold storage with minimal writes afterwards. But I would emphatically recommend Western Digital over Seagate any day of the week. Seagates have a reputation for failure and their slight discount is not worth the hassle and expense of buying a new drive every couple years. I've never had any of my Western Digital drives fail, despite owning many, but the one Seagate I purchased failed in under two years. Looking at the failure rates, Seagates are a little bit worse. But in my ancecdotal experience Seagate drives are doomed to fail. I wish there werre more options but WD and Hitachi (now owned by WD) are it. At least SSDs there are a variety of manufacturers. Seagate is in business because large corporations buy hard drives by the truckload and Seagates are a few dollars cheaper. They expect to replace drives often so they save money this way. For home storage, never buy Seagate.

>>1865 I'm a week in using a Seagate and I'm replacing that shit as soon as my WD purple gets home You want to load multiple softwares at the same time? Fuck you, wait several minutes You want to load multiple videos and quickly skips the boring one pressing next video key? Fuck you, have some nice delay of 4-5 seconds after you pressed the next key You want to load your picture folders to find the right picture to shitpost with? Fuck you, wait some more Fuck Seagate. I'm done with this shit I need something stable that can run 24/7. I had bad luck with WD Blues fucking up between a year or two of constant usage and I found a cheap purple one. I'll see if the color scheme is actually worth it or if it's just different stickers for suckers to pay more

>>1863 For casual use, that is gaming, updating your softwares, watching videos the WD Blue are solid If you plan to use it for any tasks that require constant writing, overwriting and deleting files like surveillance for example just beware that I had 2 WD Blue starting to fail after a year of constant usage And yes WD Blues were much faster than this fucking Barracuda piece of shit. Pick the 7200RPM for fastest speed in your casual use and have fun

>>1865 I own several Seagate HDDs, one is eleven years old, one is eight and one is six years old, used daily. Pic related contains some statistics of one of them. One big reason for HDD problems is shit software like Windows 10 which sometimes goes to 100% disk usage (Updates and other crap), Google Chrome's "software_reporter_tool.exe", which reads the entire disk (all partitions) multiple times a week, Steam, shit web browsers' caches, bloated software with over ten thousand files and so on. Avoiding shit software is an effective way to prevent HDD problems. Hard disks are things and all things suffer wear over time, including our own souls. Ineffective usage and unnecessary stress like the examples I mentioned accelerate the process of deterioration. Avoid using shit software and your hardware will last longer.

Could I bring up that I have NEVER had a problem with my Seagate hard drives. And the ONLY drive that I have ever had fail on me was the WD hard drive that came packaged in my laptop?

>>1866 The same thing happens to me on my WD blue when something is using a lot of disk bandwidth but in my case it's strictly an OS thing where the OS starves some of the processes instead of distributing the bandwidth evenly. I meant to ask about this in the tech support thread eventually but I've been lazy. >if it's just different stickers for suckers to pay more It totally is, specially as of late. They created the green brand to dump the drives that were even shittier than their lowest end line and then that wasn't enough so they started dumping the old green drives on the blue line. I bought a blue one last year and the motherfucker has the same quirks I hated from the green line. The issue with the shingled drives came into the spotlight because they were selling red drives which are supposed to be designed to be used in NAS arrays but they started being rejected by people's NAS' because being shingled they were too slow and timed out, that's how jewish they are.

>>1870 >>1871 Was it a Seagate Barracuda or another code name you used? If it was another one, would you mind sharing which one you went with?

>>1880 The healthy 46600-hours plus disk is a Barracuda, so are my other Seagate HDDs. I have seen similar disks, Seagate and others, have problems after less than two years of use. The men used the kind of stuff I mentioned earlier. You faggots should know better.

>>1913 Good for you. I just received my WD Purple and I can confirm that I'm not going crazy using a piece of shit any longer. There doesn't seem to be a noticeable difference in speed from WD Blue and WD Purple. If it dies in a year or so I'll just assume the color stickers are a scam for suckers I wish Seagates didn't suck cocks so there'd be more good options on the market. But according to this thread I'm not the only hater https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/seagate-barracuda-2tb-slow-issue.3443725/

>>1871 gr8 anecdote i r8 0/10

2 years ago 10 years of being on still works

I just put an SSD in my wife's laptop. finally. > now quit complaining about fucking windows thank youuuuuu. Why the fuck are most people afraid of doing simple shit like that to their machines? I had tried to tell her over and over to let me do it so that it wouldn't be so bad. She just does regular shit online and work. I'm a firm believer that those who use computers should get a license to own a computer. If you don't have a license, you aren't allowed on the internet. Period. You can have a million computers, but none of them can be connected to the internet unless you get this license. One of the beginner classes for the license requirements would be, "Password Protection and Security." Start everyone off with that. You get your license when you write your own OS so that you can connect to the internet. Maybe just write your own connection protocols.

>>2528 >I'm a firm believer that those who use computers should get a license to own a computer. >If you don't have a license, you aren't allowed on the internet. Period. Oi!

> /toshiba >no toshiba They last you long time.

>>1834 >trying to get new phone because current one is dying >repeatedly see a used S9 can be rooted and has the best features for the price >buy S9 >"oh sorry, only European models can be rooted" >exchange for European model >seller falsely listed model so I have to exchange again >finally get the correct model >spend months trying to root it >turns out Samsung quietly pushed an update that patched root access >this isn't mentioned anywhere except on the 3rd page of some obscure forum >end up just buying another used model of current phone to swap buttons and battery >I'll deal with this shit next year The S9 actually seemed decent aside from not being rootable, but this guarantees I won't be buying another Samsung phone if I can't safely root it. Friend of mine also tried the Samsung home appliances and all of them were garbage, so avoid those too. (I didn't even know they made those until they showed up in his kitchen.)

>>2557 >They last you long time. You sound biased.

I never understood the hate that seagate drives get. I own at least 7 of them and have never experienced a failure. My guess is that they're simply so popular due to their price that there's a larger sample size for negative experiences to occur. >>2715 That's incredibly annoying. I have an S6 which is properly rooted and that serves me well, and an S9+ which I struggled with for a week before giving up. Now I just use it as an offline GPS after loading it with a shitload of OSMAnd+ maps.

>>2777 I bought 2 barracudas years ago as OS drive nothing demanding, both work great for a year before grinding to a halt. Never seen such a short lifespan, they are improving though, but still surprisingly shit: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q2-2020/

>>1834 I bought a video off an e-whore's website and it was a serious case of false advertising. I expected twenty minutes of some hot chick telling stories of herself being a slut. I got thirty seconds of that followed by nineteen minutes and thirty seconds of assorted "mmmm baby you like that? oooooooh"

>>2893 >payed for porn Should be a criminal offense

>>2894 >payed it's PAID HAHA YOU LOSE

>>2716 Toshiba numba wan!

>>2895 I'VE BLUNDERED

>>1834 >2 TB If that's all the capacity you need, then you should've bought an SSD instead. In my opinion.

>>1852 just be careful of shingled ones, because you'll regret again

>>1834 lol didn't you look up the specs first? almost everything "green" is a scam. I think I'd make an exception for some power supplies from like 10+ years ago where the "green" ones were a way to get something efficient enough to be quiet for office use even if you ran it somewhere kind of getting up toward its power rating. Other than that pretty much no except for a cheap laptop I bought last year while I was too drunk to try the keyboard and it had all fucking weird keys in the wrong places and proceeded to piss me off until I accidentally kicked it off the bed while I was even more drunk and the screen shattered.