There are quite a few choices of brands when it comes to purchasing harddisks or ssd, but which one do you find the most reliable one? Personally had great experiences with SeaGate, but heard ChrisTitus had the opposite experience with them.

So curious to what manufacturers people here swear to and why? Which ones do you have the worst experience with?

  • @[email protected]
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    210 months ago

    I thought you meant 1 TB as a sort of peak performer (better than 2+ TB) in this area. From the description, it’s more like 1 TB is kinda the minimum durability you want with a drive, but larger drives are better?

    • @BigMikeInAustin
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      210 months ago

      From the drives I have seen, usually there are 3 write-cache sizes.

      Usually the smallest write-cache is for drives 128GB or smaller. Sometimes the 256GB is also here.

      Usually the middle size write-cache is for 512GB and sometimes 256GB drives.

      Usually the largest write-cache is only in 1TB and bigger drives.

      Performance-wise for writes, you want the biggest write cache, so you want at least a 1TB drive.

      For the best wear leveling, you want the drive as big as you can afford, while also looking at the makeup of the memory chips. In order of longest lasting listed first: Single Level, Multi Level, Triple Level, Quad Level.