Two different hard drives

[hitmanblood]

I am currently using a no name hard drive that came with a old computer i bought of craigslist two years ago, it currently died on me luckly it didnt have much on it.

So im looking for a new hard drive for recording fraps videos too, my two choices are

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...SIN=B0036Q7MV0

The 2TB version and

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barrac...nal+hard+drive

the 3TB as its cheaper then the WD hard drive.

Question is in peoples experience what would give me longer term life span, do either company have a high failure rate then the other?

Any performance differences, non that i could see.

I would trust you guys better then the amazon reviews.

[kojinshugi]

Anecdotally, WD drives have a slightly lower failure rate. The WD also has a 5 year limited warranty as opposed to the 2 years on the Seagate.

However, I'd get the 3TB one. Any drive can fail, most won't. They're the same performance wise.

3 terabytes for $120 is just too good to pass up.

EDIT: here's some actual data: http://www.behardware.com/articles/8...s-rates-5.html

Seagate seems to be better at least in the 1-2TB range.

[Toffie]

Caviar Black is probaly the fastest and most reliable harddisk today. Even then, you wont notice much difference at all, i'd go for the 3 TB since the price and size difference is so far apart.

Every harddisk can fail, 2 year warranty is more than enough.

[Deleted]

why not a nice WD green? (unless you are frapsing in some crazy resolution)
big capacity and deceptively fast (100 mb/s read/write, blacks do about +-120 mb/s read/write)
never had an issue with WD however i've seen some seagates die around me. (knocks on wood)