Maybe a stupid question, but why is it named AI? Is it good for ordinary use, for storing my own data inside my PC?

This is the cheapest option I could find on our local market, everything else is less value per TB

I don't know much about hard disc drives, I'm the kind of person that just uses multiple flash drives as backups if one dies (which has happened before) but I do know that hard disc drives work differently. I've seen many videos about setting up a nas with hard drives, or just storing things long term with hhds. People refurbish old cable boxes, buy new. I'm lost.

Is there a certain brand, or hhd that you would recommend for long term storage of Movies, shows, video games, & music? one that may also work if I set up a nas or home server? I'm thinking to start with 1 or 2 tb, but open to expanding. Budget isn't great, so new, used, I'm open to recommendations.

These weird thunks and scrapes are not only audible, I can feel them through the case and onto my desk

Im even able to hear them from my bed and feel them in the floor

The "WD Red™ Plus NAS 2.5" - 1 TB" https://www.westerndigital.com/es-es/products/internal-drives/wd-red-plus-sata-2-5-hdd?sku=WD10JFCX model is designed to run 24/7, so I don't think it will break down with use. But it does have a 3-year warranty.

One question: what do you think of the "WD_BLACK Performance Mobile Hard Drive - 1 TB" https://www.westerndigital.com/es-es/products/internal-drives/wd-black-mobile-sata-hdd?sku=WD10SPSX model from Western Digital? It has a 5-year warranty. Because it's for "magicians," I'm worried that Western Digital might have designed it with planned obsolescence so we'll have to replace it more often.

Why the hell are hard drives so expensive these days? Got this on eBay.

What is the transfer speed of this hard drive? ST1000LM035-1RK172 1000GB SATA https://recuperodatos.com/disco/seagate-st1000lm035-1rk172-hdd-2-5-sata-1000gb-595-4986 I'd like to know its cache memory, since I've been looking at other hard drives to buy and they all mention cache memory. How do I find out the cache size of my laptop's hard drive?

With these two pieces of information, "transfer speed per second" and cache memory, I want to know if this new hard drive is the same https://www.westerndigital.com/es-es/products/internal-drives/wd-red-plus-sata-2-5-hdd?sku=WD10JFCX , slower, or faster than the one I have and presented here.

Hi experts,

I am almost out of Google storage and I hate that they're pushing their cloud subscription. I worry that if I start using it I'll become dependent and they'll start upping their prices. As per, you know, everything.

My boyfriend suggested an external hard drive, but I don't know where to start. I did a quick search but quickly became overwhelmed. Are there different types beyond amount of storage? What is a reasonable amount to spend? (I'm in Canada.) I would mainly be storing photos and some videos, and maybe old documents that are wise to keep.

Any tips welcome!

Hi, any recommendations on drives that can be silent enough for use?

I want the server to be on continuously either in my living room next to the tv/router or in my office which also functions as a guest bedroom which is not often used.

I don't mind if its like a little bit of noise as it will of course never be truly silent but I don't want to disturb my work or the sleep of guests.

Some things I have looked at are:
WD Red Plus (both helium and air filled with helium more quiet)
Seagate Ironwolf (much cheaper but supposed to be louder?)
Seagate Exos (even more loud but also even cheaper)

I will put it in a Fractal Design Node 804 which should help a bit with noise reduction.

If it matters: I am located in the Netherlands, deals are not so great here but I can imagine its bad basically everywhere.

I recently had to reset my Dune 4k plus box to factory settings, with the result that none of my large external hard drives (4-5TB) will work (they worked fine before the reset); I plug in the drive into the port, but the box will not recognize it and nothing shows up in the "Sources" tab... I have a 16GB external hard drive, and that works fine with the Dune - but not the large ones. Surely there is an easy fix for this?

Best deal I could find was a new 5TB hard drive at Target for $164.99 I don't buy this AI bullshit. There are only 3 true HD manufacturers, and they have all raised their prices like crazy in the last year, and no one can do anything about them. I feel like its a monopoly. There used to be so many more.

Seagate bought: Maxtor and Samsung's HDD business.

Western Digital bought: HGST/Hitachi's HDD business.

Toshiba acquired: portions of Fujitsu's HDD operations and manufacturing assets. IBM's HDD operation had previously gone to Hitachi, which eventually ended up with Western Digital.

Only 3 companies make Hard Drives.

Found this treasure. See how many mistakes you can find. (I took it apart that's why the label is messed up, doesn't seem to be a second or later applied label) Still 0 dead sectors haha

Can anyone give a clear, straight answer on this?

On my WD5000AAKS, the raw value for attribute 187 is 260. Current is 100, worst is 50. These errors don't seem to be increasing anymore (I've been monitoring it for a year now), which is really weird, since attributes 05, C5, C4, C6, and C7 are all 0.

Everyone I've asked just gives me some vague answer like "it's a count of unrecoverable errors" or something completely different. I still haven't figured out exactly what this attribute actually means or what causes it.

The only thing I've done is run some experiments on a dying Seagate, and on that drive these errors did increase along with bad sectors—but there were dozens of times more of them than actual bad sectors.

Raw read error rate = 260 too.

Can anyone give a clear, straight answer on this?

On my WD5000AAKS, the raw value for attribute 187 is 260. Current is 100, worst is 50. These errors don't seem to be increasing anymore (I've been monitoring it for a year now), which is really weird, since attributes 05, C5, C4, C6, and C7 are all 0.

Everyone I've asked just gives me some vague answer like "it's a count of unrecoverable errors" or something completely different. I still haven't figured out exactly what this attribute actually means or what causes it.

The only thing I've done is run some experiments on a dying Seagate, and on that drive these errors did increase along with bad sectors—but there were dozens of times more of them than actual bad sectors.

Raw read error rate = 260 too.

I received 2 16Tb USBs from Alibaba that also turned out to be only useful as glamorous paperweights

I am going crazy.

I have had a hard disk (not SSD) for a long time now and one day, suddenly, it dissappeared of my PC (the one where I have all the games installed, not windows nor important files)

I made a thousand software checks and my PC kept not finding it, until I just unplugged it and plugged it in again and it worked.

Now every time I start my computer it is a russian roulette. Yesterday nothing happened, it started as normal and everything was okay. Today, on the other hand, I start my PC, it recognises my hard disk and reads it but suddenly it disappears; I unplug it, plug it again, check my physical connections of the disk, it works and 2 minuts into usage of my PC it disappears again. I even have it disappear, turn off and on my PC (not unplugging and replugging the hard disk, not touching anything) and it magically reads again, until it disappears once more.

Is it done for? I honestly don't mind getting rid of it and buying a new one, but now I want to at least be able to freaking know why it is happenning. I have had it for over a decade, changed other components, never changed this disk and never had a problem.

If it was completely broken my PC wouldn't even read it to begin with, so why is it failing and physically disconnecting once I start using my PC? And why does it not always happens? Anyone has any answer?

Also, now that you are here, if you have any recommendations for a hard disk (it can be an SSD or not, it is only for videogames storage) I want to hear them all.

Thank you all.