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I need a hard disk for storing media and for downloading purpose.Budget is strictly limited to 6k only.Will be using this drive in Desktop.
Prefer Western Digital..
Prefer Western Digital..
Suggest a 2TB Hard Drive for a budget of 6k
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Western digital caviar green 2tb @ 5.8k.
or Seagate Barracuda 
Seagate Barracuda 2 TB Desktop Internal Hard Drive (ST2000DM001): Flipkart.com
Seagate Barracuda 2 TB Desktop Internal Hard Drive (ST2000DM001): Flipkart.com
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Actually,i have gone through WD and found a lot of negative reviews about this WD Green Drive:WD Caviar Green 2 TB Desktop Internal Hard Drive (WD20EARX): Flipkart.com
So any other WD drive @6k budget?
So any other WD drive @6k budget?
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WD caviar black 1tb for 6k @flipkart.
No need for WD Black if strictly for storing data. Greens, however, reportedly have high failure rates. Go for WD Blue imo. Or, Seagate.
WD green is not a good choice as 2TB HDD.
Minimum choice should be WD Blue, and the best being WD Black.
Get the Blue Edition.
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Any link where i can find the WD Blue Edition(2TB) for 6k?And anyone heard of Red NAS Drives?Are they stable/Good Performer?Better than Blue?Can i find it for 6k?
NAS won't be available for 6K !! And I also don't think that WD Blue would be available at that price range.
at 6k, 2TB HDDs are only WD Green & Seagate Barracuda.
at 6k, 2TB HDDs are only WD Green & Seagate Barracuda.
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Barracuda is more VFM. Pls calculate cost per MB/GB. Though warranty may not be as good as WD, bt its certainly better than WD Green if budget is around 6K for 2TB.
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If that's the case then should i finalize:Seagate Barracuda 2 TB Desktop Internal Hard Drive (ST2000DM001): Flipkart.com instead of:WD AV-GP 2 TB Desktop Internal Hard Drive (WD20EURS): Flipkart.com
Since my previous HDD WD 1.5TB Green one failed,will this Seagate one will be able to run 24*7...as my WD Ran 18.5hrs simultaneously on an average during Winters(5+months)Will seagate run this much without any problem?
Since my previous HDD WD 1.5TB Green one failed,will this Seagate one will be able to run 24*7...as my WD Ran 18.5hrs simultaneously on an average during Winters(5+months)Will seagate run this much without any problem?
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For your question, it depends on what factors govern your decisions. If budget is not a constraint, Its always better to go with most proven peripheral in the market; At this moment, I believe it is WD Caviar Black. In this thread OP has budget as constraint and hence I suggested what best I think is within that. Not necessarily everyone will agree to my thought. Electronics are not trustworthy and varies from person to person based on experiences. I have good and bad experience with both WD and Seagate. You may also hence end up buying a proven product that failure rate of 1 per 1000 pieces but what if you are that one out 1000! 
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Budget is a strict constraint!And i wanted to know if Seagate is a well performer or not since i had a horrible experience in 2008-09 session as the hard disk only lasted one year.It was a 500 GB HDD.. :/ .But on my XPS 15 I have a Seagate Hard disk of 750 GB(It's running very smooth...i formatted it many times and even deleted all the partitions many times too..) [Touchwood ]
.But on my XPS 15 I have a Seagate Hard disk of 750 GB(It's running very smooth...i formatted it many times and even deleted all the partitions many times too..) [Touchwood ]
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^^it all depends on your luck.if you are lucky even WD green will last you 4-5 years & if not even WD black will die within few months.the only advice i give is always have a backup of your important data in a different hdd.
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Well Said whitestar. I have used countless seagate drives from my college days and never had a failure. I had failures with expensive hitachi drive that I got from Malaysia and also a WD drive recently. However I continue to own a 500 GB WD external drive which just doesnt give up even after being kicked like a football by my kids.
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^^Can we extend warranty of Seagate Drive like WD?WD comes with 2 years warranty and so does Seagate!But we can extend WD Warranty after paying some money,is this the same with Seagate?Can i extend seagate warranty too?
No, you can't. There is no service like that..
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^^But we can extend warranty of WD Green Drive,thought such service is available in Seagate too,well...if that's the case then Warranty is my top priority because Hard Drives are prone to failure,it is like "Kabhi bhi khin bhi kuch bhi hosakta hai"
But be warned. Failure rate of WD Green drives are high.
I second that... have seen 2 greens of my friends going kaput in this year.
I am using 2TB WD Green for around 2 years and no problems so far, however I have also seen many cases of Green Edition failures.
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^^Finally a positive post about green .Can we still extend the warranty of WD green drive,i mean in 2009,when i bought the drive at that time we could extend the warranty!Is that option still available if i buy from Flipkart?
.Can we still extend the warranty of WD green drive,i mean in 2009,when i bought the drive at that time we could extend the warranty!Is that option still available if i buy from Flipkart?
Ask WD for more info on this subject. Their number is toll free anyway.
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I thought you own the drive,..you might be knowing about it...Don't you?
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Yeah, he owns the drive not WD Support . Call up WD to find out if they still offer extended warranty. I think they do bt you may not wanna spend money on what i say abt WD; better ask WD themselves.
. Call up WD to find out if they still offer extended warranty. I think they do bt you may not wanna spend money on what i say abt WD; better ask WD themselves.
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Asked WD Warranty Support,they told me that warranty extension service is not in India.It's for foreign countries.What a bad news 
!!Now,will go with seagate..no more choice left now
!!Now,will go with seagate..no more choice left now
Whats the difference between this and this.
@SahilAr Which HDD did u choose?
@SahilAr Which HDD did u choose?
^^ Don't ask the same thing everywhere. I replied in the other thread where you asked the very same question.
@gameranand _ Thanks for the help. I first posted here but then I thought it'd be better to post on that newer thread but I forgot to delete the first line of my post here.
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@Piyoosh,Both are WD Drives,there's a difference in price only!Rest the Drives and capacity-both are same.I read negative reviews about this:WD AV-GP 2 TB Desktop Internal Hard Drive (WD20EURS): Flipkart.com. I recommend this: one:WD Caviar Green 2 TB Desktop Internal Hard Drive (WD20EARX): Flipkart.comas others have suggested me before;i would recommend you to go with seagate instead of WD,because mine WD failed immediately after warranty expiration,both offer 2 year warranty.However,Seagate is a faster one..so go with seagate instead of WD Green/Blue.
WD Blue are pretty reliable for sure.
As for performance I think that WD are faster than Segate one at similar spindle speeds.
As for performance I think that WD are faster than Segate one at similar spindle speeds.
@SahilAr _ The 2 drives you stated have some differences in the way they work and thanks for your suggestion.
"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. On a normal drive it could go into an error recovery mode and stop recording for 10-30 seconds - and this is much worse for security.
However if you store documents, a single byte error could corrupt megabytes or even gigabytes of important data."
-Source
-Courtesy of gameranand
Btw, its not me whos buying the disk, its my friend Sahil (another one)
I have used Seagate for ages and haven't got any bad experiences with it. (touchwood)
"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. On a normal drive it could go into an error recovery mode and stop recording for 10-30 seconds - and this is much worse for security.
However if you store documents, a single byte error could corrupt megabytes or even gigabytes of important data."
-Source
-Courtesy of gameranand
Btw, its not me whos buying the disk, its my friend Sahil (another one)
I have used Seagate for ages and haven't got any bad experiences with it. (touchwood)
If you not willing to extend the budget then better get a Segate because Blue are not available at 2TB.
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Finally got Seagate...A Speedy Drive and Performs good
Is the WD green failure issue really that severe? I am using a green drive for well over a year, no problems thus far. I heard the failures are due to the drive heads being parked too aggressively to save power (around 8sec after idling). Well to be fair WD recommends using Green drives for secondary storage purpose as they are only 5400rpm. How many times a day do you access your movie & music collection anyway? I think for most people its a non-issue if the green drives are used as intended. If you use it as your main OS/Programs drive though, that's cause for concern because the swap file, browser, antivirus, games etc. will keep waking up the drive a thousand times a day.