Choosing an HDD for the system

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Good day to all.
on a dear-old-kind-home computer, created to maintain coziness and warmth in the evenings for family and sometimes for yourself, it slowly becomes outdated and starts to triple IDE HDD Seagate Barracuda 160GB. a lot of things have already been on it, things started with WinXP, then for a long time Ubuntu, after upgrading the hardware (percent, mother and opera), Win7 appeared on it in the neighborhood, which unfortunately began to demand space.
and today, after the next update (I don’t write down the numbers), a little less than 1 GB remained on the Windows partition, the strip began to loom red and I thought about urgently acquiring a fast neighbor for him to store systems and incredible file junk on it.
having opened the DNS-Shop website, I remembered the advice of experienced and friends admins about the Western Digital Green line. for the house, I thought, that's it: both quietly and quickly. but the reading of comments about frequent crashes, layout problems, and in addition various tricks in the form of every second head parking, and the lack of a native solution to this problem, dispelled my hopes for the right WD. then the thought of SDD came to me, but ... friends, comrades, this is not what I need.
I need reliability instead of speed. the fact that the system will take off for 20-30 seconds, but at least a minute, does not particularly bother me longer. once having bought a Seagate Barracuda, and when it fell a month or two later, and then from friends, they flew into the eternal space of lost bytes. their confidence is gone.
maybe there are specialists in this mysterious technique that will help show the way to the young Jedi, and direct the rays of light in the right direction. what criteria to select, what to look at first.
I'm at a complete loss as to which one to choose.

Answer 1

Comrade seneast good advice. The blue WD series is a good combination of price and stability.

Answer 2

One screw cannot be reliable, the probability of its failure is 50/50, either it will break or not.
The first reliability is a raid with mirroring, the second reliability is a backup.
Both the first and second are now more than possible, two-terabyte screws now cost almost 2k rubles, so there are no special problems to mirror and save.

Answer 3

I recommend WD WD5000AAKS , quiet and cold HDD.

Answer 4

No hard drive will give you a 100% guarantee of data safety in a long run, because sooner or later it will die anyway. Someone chooses the "green" WD series, someone prefers Seagate NS'ki. You write that you need reliability, which means, no matter which manufacturer you choose, buy a few more disks and organize RAID 5 or 6 (RAID 1 may be better for a system disk).
For a raid, either buy a good controller (like older 3ware with BBU), or use software solutions like ZFS. And no ICH10R! :-)

Answer 5

WD, hitachi and (let them stone me) samsung. In my practice, one of the best in terms of combination of characteristics and frequency of departures. I take WD Black for myself (rather out of habit), but Blue is not so different from them by the way. But Green is definitely not there, brakes, and they park their heads without work, some controllers generally cause uterine rabies from them, unpleasant errors occur. As for the advanced format, I still advise you to carefully read it if you are going to take a screw with it. In general, I put computers with mirroring for myself and my loved ones, hard drives are not so expensive now, losses and just a bad mood from the loss of photo albums over several years usually do not cost those couple of thousand rubles that it costs to put the second hard drive in the mirror to the first.

Answer 6

I suspect Seagate Barracuda

Answer 7

So, after the terabyte Barracuda, which had fallen heavily already 4 months after the purchase, the WD Green two-terabyte warms my soul with happiness and peace ...

Answer 8

WD Black. And God forbid Green under the system. This is the last thing.

Answer 9

cool story bro.
I didn’t read the comments, but I know the answer for sure, WD cavair black is your choice. Well, if you want troubles, look at a higher rotation speed.