
Originally Posted by
djrock
HDD just don't die ,HDD give warning & Drag for years before it Die .Something Must have gone horribly wrong to kill HDD that way .How is your surge protection security(for house owner & for renter two different type of system) .SSD is good but problem is SSD can die far easily ,like Voltage spike or sudden surge can kill SSD .My motherboard died 3 time in last 5 years ,Ram stick both of them died together but Still my HDD going Strong & I m sure if it was SSD they would have died every time my mobo or ram died .HDD is hard to kill in those scenario .SO my suggestion for bootable drive buy a 128 gb or 60 gb ssd .Samsung evo or pro .Pro isn't available in BD but Pro actually give 10 year warranty .
Hitachi is ofcourse good but Hitachi isn't available anymore ,even if you find any most probably they will be chinese repaired HItachi but Hitachi brand is now called HGST buy those ,some shop might keep them .There are two type of HDD one is build for high stressed environment(Enterprise,low rpm might not be good for gaming) ,other for regular consumer .so if you pay the price you might get those .WD & Seaget are top 2 Worst HDD .Toshiba is average but nothing match with the greatest HGST
I feel instead of Buying one HDD ,Buy two for your Whole Data ,So that if One Die You don't have to lose everything .Also you can keep the most used Part in One HDD & Your Video ,Picture or other precious info on other less used HDD