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I've been in the habit of backing up my large capacity files via a DVD burner, but it's starting to get time consuming and tiresome. Even though I take pretty good care of my discs and have had them last several years, the price and convenience of todays' large capacity HDDs is tempting.
The negatives I can see are 1, reliability seems to go down the larger the capacity drive you have, 2, speed seems to suffer somewhat on the larger capacity drives (esp seek time), and 3, with LOTS of files backed up on one 3 or 4 TB drive, you risk losing a lot if it goes bad.
I've looked at WD Black 2, 3 and 4 TB HDDs, Hitachi Desktar, and a Seagate XT 3TB, which is no longer made but performs better than their current drive. I was tempted after reading some tech site reviews on the WD Black 4 TB to get the Seagate XT 3TB, because it's pretty fast, cool, quiet and affordable.
As mentioned, the Seagate XT 3TB is no longer made though, and the only way I can get it at a good price is OEM . An Amazon sub vendor called New World IT has it for $133, and the product page claims a 5 yr warranty on it, but when I called Seagate, they seem very adamant about warrantying it.
Seagate doesn't even list authorized resellers except on the product pages of current models. Furthermore, despite claiming they can distinguish brand bought and prepped drives that are purchased by Dell, HP, etc, they say they don't warranty any OEM drives period.
It's bad enough you hear horror stories about faulty Barracuda XT drives even from retailers setting up small businesses with servers, where new drives that failed in a short period of time were replaced with refurbished models, but their phone staff seem apathetic as well.
So at this point I'm wondering if I should just keep using burned discs as my backup and not trust a large capacity HDD, whether the warranty, if there is one, is trustworthy or not. Getting a replacement does not get you back your 3TB worth of files.
[Just an update]
I called New World IT, whom have their own separate website and business. They said the warranty on the product page is printed by Amazon and incorrect. It's warrantied by Seagate but according to manufacture date, which expires Mar 2016.
Seriously Seagate? A brand new OEM HDD sitting in an anti static bag on a shelf is going to degrade? Clearly this is just their being apathetic and cheap. They don't want to do what it takes to refurb or replace discontinued items, period.
I've bought a refurbed Sapphire GPU off eBay that was warrantied to manufacture date that had a 2 year warranty. I expect better when buying a brand new item.
The negatives I can see are 1, reliability seems to go down the larger the capacity drive you have, 2, speed seems to suffer somewhat on the larger capacity drives (esp seek time), and 3, with LOTS of files backed up on one 3 or 4 TB drive, you risk losing a lot if it goes bad.
I've looked at WD Black 2, 3 and 4 TB HDDs, Hitachi Desktar, and a Seagate XT 3TB, which is no longer made but performs better than their current drive. I was tempted after reading some tech site reviews on the WD Black 4 TB to get the Seagate XT 3TB, because it's pretty fast, cool, quiet and affordable.
As mentioned, the Seagate XT 3TB is no longer made though, and the only way I can get it at a good price is OEM . An Amazon sub vendor called New World IT has it for $133, and the product page claims a 5 yr warranty on it, but when I called Seagate, they seem very adamant about warrantying it.
Seagate doesn't even list authorized resellers except on the product pages of current models. Furthermore, despite claiming they can distinguish brand bought and prepped drives that are purchased by Dell, HP, etc, they say they don't warranty any OEM drives period.
It's bad enough you hear horror stories about faulty Barracuda XT drives even from retailers setting up small businesses with servers, where new drives that failed in a short period of time were replaced with refurbished models, but their phone staff seem apathetic as well.
So at this point I'm wondering if I should just keep using burned discs as my backup and not trust a large capacity HDD, whether the warranty, if there is one, is trustworthy or not. Getting a replacement does not get you back your 3TB worth of files.
[Just an update]
I called New World IT, whom have their own separate website and business. They said the warranty on the product page is printed by Amazon and incorrect. It's warrantied by Seagate but according to manufacture date, which expires Mar 2016.
Seriously Seagate? A brand new OEM HDD sitting in an anti static bag on a shelf is going to degrade? Clearly this is just their being apathetic and cheap. They don't want to do what it takes to refurb or replace discontinued items, period.
I've bought a refurbed Sapphire GPU off eBay that was warrantied to manufacture date that had a 2 year warranty. I expect better when buying a brand new item.
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