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Seagate consumer drives have HORRIBLE reviews. (Based on that) I would avoid them at all costs.
Hitachi (HGST, now owned bye Western Digital) seem to have the best reviews - but they don't seem to have "desktop" drives anymore (?) instead sticking to "NAS" drives. (Seemingly a NAS drive is for a "NAS", RAID array, kind of thing & not for use as, say your typical C: drive. That said, I picked up a Toshiba NAS drive for offline storage - outside of any array.)
Western Digital "scares" me these days, in that there is so much "marketing" in drives these days, & WDC in particular has gone through so much "packaging", you never know what you're actually getting.
People say the Blacks are no long "Black" but rather rebranded XYZ's, while charging you more $$ & giving you a longer warranty (on the Blacks). And then there were Greens, which seemed to have gotten merged into Blues, so is a Blue blue or green or even black?
"Intelli" drives, I'm pretty sure are "quick parkers", IOW, after a relatively short period of time, the drives spin down, so in my mind, making them less then optimal to be used as a "system" drive. Spin up, spin down, spin up, spin down...
Cache. Toshiba has "P" & "X" series desktop drives. In general, the P's have less cache then the X's, so 64 vs 128. Now what does the matter in the scheme of things, don't know, but I did happen to realize that fact today.
"Specialized" drives may in some respects be "specialized". "Surveillance", NAS, bla bla bla.
So... for me, for an internal "system" drive (with SDD being too small, too expensive, relatively)...
HGST doesn't cut it because its not appropriate for a system drive. Seagate has huge failure rates. WDC I don't trust because of its marketing. So that kind of leaves me looking at Toshiba (which there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of information about - and there is talk of warranty ,option on their part, to give you a "gift card" rather then replacing a failed drive?).
I guess, in the end, if you get lucky & your drive lasts, it lasts, & if it fails, you've lost all your data. So...
Newegg, Fry's or Microcenter (?) would seem to be the places to go? (Bestbuy supposedly price matches.) Newegg may have "bare", possibly OEM, for some of their drives. Toshiba (the N that I picked up) while it was "retail" only meant that it came in a Toshiba box (but no cable or rails...).
Newegg has this Toshiba 4 TB, https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149627 for $105 (after promo code), which I might give a shot?
Oh, & for archiving alone, whether a drive is 5400 or 7200 should not matter at all. (For a system drive, you certainly would not want a 5400 drive.)
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q3-2017/
Above thoughts are generally about 3.5" HDD's. Not sure I'd consider a 2.5" for internal system desktop drive? For storage, if it offered a better warranty or some other reason, then yes.
http://www.storagereview.com/pick_the_right_drive_for_the_job_24_7_nas_hdds_vs_desktop_hdds
For reference, FWIW, for black friday, various place had various brands; Seagate, Toshiba, WD Blue, of 4 TB HDD's for ~$88. -------------------------------------- BANK OF AMERICA.COM ONLINE BANKING SUCKS IN THE HUGEST WAY IMAGINABLE
Newegg.com's new image gallery layout sucks in the hugest way imaginable too ! And now they're using JavaScript to "turn" pages to boot ! SUCKS
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