Which is the Fastest and reliable 10TB hard disk?

[sammy]

Hi all,

I would want to buy 10TB hard drive to keep all my data into one place, so would like to know which one more reliable and fast, I saw verious hard drives on Internet but would like to know from your experiences and recommendations.

Few which I found on internet are:-

WD Red PRO NAS 10TB
Segate Barracuda Pro Compute 10TB
Segate Ironwolf Pro 10TB
Segate Enterprise Capacity 10TB


Please advice.

Thanks

 

[cdawall]

Step one, don't keep all your data in one place.

Step two, all high density platters are a bitch to recover on failure, so see step one.

Step three, all hard drive manufactures are under 2% to profit for RMA's so brand doesn't really matter.

 

[niko084]

I have a Barracuda Pro Compute 10TB... Copied from my testing and review- Using ATTO I'm seeing on 512byte around 50MB/s, get around 8KB files and above steadily nearing 250MB/s of read and write (General range of 230MB/s - 245MB/s)

I've had this drive now for 2 days over a year, it's chugging along great. Unfortunately this is a new model so reliability isn't well known.
I say-- If it's important, back it up... and if it's worth backing up, back it up twice!

 

[cdawall]

If you don't store it in 3 places on different medias you don't have it backed up

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Of the listed drives, I'd trust Segate Enterprise Capacity 10TB the most. That said, backup is important.

 

[xkm1948]

I would highly recommend HGST Ultrastar HE10 or HE12. Buy two of these and RAID 1 them.

 

[trparky]

@FordGT90Concept , I was going to say something about you mentioning Seagate but then you added the word "Enterprise" into it and then I stopped. Yeah, Seagate enterprise drives may be decent but their consumer level drives are shit. You couldn't pay me to take a Seagate drive.

 

[R-T-B]

@FordGT90Concept , I was going to say something about you mentioning Seagate but then you added the word "Enterprise" into it and then I stopped. Yeah, Seagate enterprise drives may be decent but their consumer level drives are shit. You couldn't pay me to take a Seagate drive.

Seagate has always been a mixed bag for me. Some of their drives are indeed horrible in failure rate, but I still think they get far more hate than they deserve. They make decent drives too, and not just in enterprise, I have some consumer drives from the IDE era which are Seagate still kicking around with 100% SMART data.

You get good and bad with all. The question is the ratio.

My personal favorite is HGST Ultrastars, but see cdawall's points. They are very valid.

 

[thesmokingman]

I've been rocking a 10TB Ironwolf w/o a hiccup. Will get another probably as my main array is getting too large.

 

[Toothless]

All I can say is I miss Hitachi because their stuff was awesome. If they were still making drives and kept it up they would be best choice IMHO.

 

[R-T-B]

All I can say is I miss Hitachi because their stuff was awesome. If they were still making drives and kept it up they would be best choice IMHO.

They still are around in enterprise, albeit with WD ownership. I'm pretty sure all WD has done is cannibalize their tech into their own products though R&D wise.

Pretty sad they are gone, yeah.

 

[Vya Domus]

@FordGT90Concept , I was going to say something about you mentioning Seagate but then you added the word "Enterprise" into it and then I stopped. Yeah, Seagate enterprise drives may be decent but their consumer level drives are shit. You couldn't pay me to take a Seagate drive.

All cheap drives are shit to a degree regardless of the brand. Period.

 

[R-T-B]

All cheap drives are shit to a degree regardless of the brand. Period.

I would actually argue quite the opposite. HDD reliability has gotten insanely good even in the consumer sector as of late. RMA figures are down, not up.

This is assuming of course you do not run it 24/7 in horrid conditions and expect it to last 10 years.

 

[Vya Domus]

I would actually argue quite the opposite. HDD reliability has gotten insanely good even in the consumer sector as of late. RMA figures are down, not up.

I am saying that because when stuff brakes people immediately conclude that brand is shit , this is particularly evident when it comes down to HDDs since these have among the highest failure rates of all components inside a PC.

Well , everything brakes and even though HDDs got better they are still pretty unreliable generally speaking ( I am really curios to see what failure rates recent SSDs have since I suspect they have actually gotten better than HDDs in that aspect ). So in that sense they are all shit if you want to look at it that way.

 

[Frick]

A while ago higher density equaled higher failure rate, but I don't know if that is true these days.

 

[micropage7]

Seagate has always been a mixed bag for me. Some of their drives are indeed horrible in failure rate, but I still think they get far more hate than they deserve. They make decent drives too, and not just in enterprise, I have some consumer drives from the IDE era which are Seagate still kicking around with 100% SMART data.

You get good and bad with all. The question is the ratio.

My personal favorite is HGST Ultrastars, but see cdawall's points. They are very valid.

my experience with seagate is good, my lab use wd and in 1 year 2 drives dead
personally i would recommend seagate
enterprise could be better but i agree please do raid for safety reason

 

[P4-630]

Personally never had a failing Seagate drive, however I'd recommend HGST drives.

 

[niko084]

After taking apart and swapping parts of many hard drives over the years it would seem that some high end desktop drives are the same as their enterprise counter parts with different firmware and/or sometimes controller boards. --- Which would make some sense from a manufacturing cost consideration.

 

[zenlaserman]

@FordGT90Concept , I was going to say something about you mentioning Seagate but then you added the word "Enterprise" into it and then I stopped. Yeah, Seagate enterprise drives may be decent but their consumer level drives are shit. You couldn't pay me to take a Seagate drive.

Ya know, it's funny, I've never had problems with Seagate HDDs on systems that utilized only Seagate drives, but when WD HDDs are also in the system, it seems the Seagates randomly raise some kinda hell in the fprm of clunks and whines and farts unless set never spin down as long as computer is on. Bad HDDs typically make themselves known within 1-2 months, from any camp, in my experience. I treats em all like they on they last legs, as far as backup goes, personally.

All cheap drives are shit to a degree regardless of the brand. Period.

You bumped your head, son. I've personally bought hundreds of "cheap" HDDs in the last 25 years and there's many that go beyond 10 years spinning 85%+ constant. If one backs up all the important data, buying a drive that fails is no big deal, regardless of price. Don't matter what you spend, #1 cause of dyin is living right?

I would actually argue quite the opposite. HDD reliability has gotten insanely good even in the consumer sector as of late. RMA figures are down, not up.

This is assuming of course you do not run it 24/7 in horrid conditions and expect it to last 10 years.

Ha, man, I've seen some HDDs run a long time in horrid conditions; 50C+ heat not included. By horrid I mean buried in fucking dustbunnies so hard that dust comes out the DVD drive when you open it. 24/7 and under 45C is 5x5 for any spinner and as long as they're stable, they gonna run awhile, from my experience. Heat, static, and a hard running bump are deadly as we all know.

Anyway, backup no matter what. Backup the backup, and back it all up, too.

 

[eidairaman1]

The bigger the drive the more you lose.

Backups are imperetive

 

[trparky]

The bigger the hard drive the longer you cry when you lose your data.

 

[sammy]

Guys, Please suggest, I have one confusion. Which one should I buy from below:-

Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5'' HDD 10TB (Helium) 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache Hyperscale 512e Internal Hard Drive ST10000NM0016
https://www.newegg.com/global/in/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178941

OR
Seagate BarraCuda Pro ST10000DM0004 10TB 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
https://www.newegg.com/global/in/Pr...16822178998&cm_re=10Tb-_-22-178-998-_-Product

Segate BarraCuda Pro 10TB seems to be faster , is it faster than Enterprise ?

Thanks

 

[Athlon2K15]

Neither. WD or HGST is the only way to go.

 

[cdawall]

Neither. WD or HGST is the only way to go.

Enterprise level drives from seagate are amongst the best drives period. These are not consumer level products and anyone who would recommend a non-enterprise level drive to compete is pure conjecture and incorrect. These companies all set the industry standard for rma to profit margins.

Oh and hgst is owned by wd. Their tech is shared so saying WD or HGST is the same as saying buy wd.

Guys, Please suggest, I have one confusion. Which one should I buy from below:-

Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5'' HDD 10TB (Helium) 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache Hyperscale 512e Internal Hard Drive ST10000NM0016
https://www.newegg.com/global/in/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178941

OR
Seagate BarraCuda Pro ST10000DM0004 10TB 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
https://www.newegg.com/global/in/Pr...16822178998&cm_re=10Tb-_-22-178-998-_-Product

Segate BarraCuda Pro 10TB seems to be faster , is it faster than Enterprise ?

Thanks

The enterprise drive will typically be faster for sustained write the pro will be fast for basically everything else. The pro comes with a 2 year data savers from Seagate (free recovery if it fails) the enterprise comes with a 2m hr mtbf.

Really your choice.

 

[WhiteNoise]

I've been using seagate drives for 18 years and have not had a single one fail. I have around 10 or more of them. My company uses Seagate Enterprise drives (which we sell to our customers) and I never sees these returned due to failure.