Need to buy a 2 TB HDD, help needed.

Actually i thought of buying
Seagate Barracuda 2 TB Desktop Internal Hard Drive (ST2000DM001) but when i heard about its CONS i thought of going for
WD Caviar Green 2 TB Desktop Internal Hard Drive (WD20EARX). What shall i do now?

Go for Seagate.

the reviews are so bad that i don't want to waste my 6k

You'll find more bad reviews for WD Green sadly.

We had a similar discussion just last week. See below thread -
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/pc-components-configurations/167437-suggest-2tb-hard-drive-budget-6k.html

damn, it would a pain if i buy WD Black just for storing data

hmmm... then get WD Blue.

WD Blue comes in a range of 80 GB - 1 TB only :cry:

I wud have gone for WD Black if it wasn't meant only for storing data

Whats the difference between this and this.

piyoosh528 said:
Whats the difference between this and this.

THIS.

@gameranand
suggest something man, help me out

sahil1033 said:
@gameranand
suggest something man, help me out

Both wd green and Seagate are cheap and within your budget, but has performance issues. If you want to risk choose the one with higher warranty. Or you can pay higher price and get a wd black which are great performers and have 5 year warranty.
Another alternative is to go for Toshiba or Hitachi drives. Do a Google search about these drives and make a decision.

I have both and they are the same. No performance issues, mine are at work almost always since they have been bought , no problems yet in the last 18 months. Buy whichever is giving more warranty/ whichever is cheaper.

Well for me data is important (like you) And I am scared that WD Green can go bad any day. So, what options I have?

1, Buy a WD Black at almost double the price.
2. Buy 2 WD Greens. (which is slightly higher than 1WD Black)

I chose option No.2. Remember WD black can also go bad, though the chances are less. But going 2 WD Greens dead at same time is almost nil (or very very less).

So, I have 6 WD Greens for my need of 3 HDDs.

If you want to play even safer, buy 1 WD Green and 1 Seagate of the same price.

I hope I made my stand clear.

W

according to the link by gameranand

The A/V drives ignore errors, the normal drives will do an error recovery to attempt to get back any data from the platter.When recording video (security cameras etc) you want an A/V drive that will just record whatever you throw at it, and keep going even if it misses a byte or two.An error in a couple of bytes just causes a minor blip in the video stream, but the rest won't stop.However if you store documents, a single byte error could corrupt megabytes or even gigabytes of important data.

as per this WD green is suitable for storage/normal consumer usage while AV series is better suited for recording video streams(surveillance).

For data dumping at 6K Segate would be better suited for you. I own a WD 2 TB Green Edition and haven't faced any issues but I can't ignore many HDD failures I have seen with those drives so I would suggest you to go for Segate and if you want reliability at any cost then I guess WD Black Edition is available for around 10K and I also own that drive and performance wise WD Black is really fast than any Mechanical HDD out there.

image said:
Well for me data is important (like you) And I am scared that WD Green can go bad any day. So, what options I have?

1, Buy a WD Black at almost double the price.
2. Buy 2 WD Greens. (which is slightly higher than 1WD Black)

I chose option No.2. Remember WD black can also go bad, though the chances are less. But going 2 WD Greens dead at same time is almost nil (or very very less).

So, I have 6 WD Greens for my need of 3 HDDs.

If you want to play even safer, buy 1 WD Green and 1 Seagate of the same price.

I hope I made my stand clear.

But WD Black has 5 year warranty and are the best of their class I would easily choose a WD Black over 2 WD Green anyday. They are one of the best that WD manufactures.

Ordered Seagate from flipkart :-D

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/hardware-q/167875-hdd-not-showing-my-computer.html