3TB HD or 1TB SSD

[eek]

sorry it £86

WD Caviar Green 3 TB - 600 MBps

Try and buy it at that price. I would be surprised if 3tb is less than £140 and even then I wouldn't want it as the drive will be 5400rpm and slower than what you currently have.

Your choice is speed or hard drive capacity. Personally I would go for a 128/256 ssd and get a usb external drive or a timecapsule.

[doodab]

My proper computer has a 160GB SSD and 3 x 1TB hard drives. I'm about to add another SSD for VMs.

My portable proper computer has a 512GB SSD. They are less than £500 now, certainly worth the money if you actually need the space/performance combination.

[AtW]

We had high failure rate on WD 1.5 TB greens few years ago. Don't know if they fixed it now but would not be willing to test on valueable data.

Paid £340+VAT for each of the many enterprise grade 3 TBs last week - in the meantime HDD manufactures collect insurance money and count windfall profits from increased pricing

[scooterscot]

We had high failure rate on WD 1.5 TB greens few years ago. Don't know if they fixed it now but would not be willing to test on valueable data.

What was the failure mode?

Do you have enough data to perform a Weibull?

[AtW]

What was the failure mode?

15%+ of WD 1.5 TB Green failed within 1 year of purchase, yes it was that bad. 2 TBs were better however we decided not to take chances with 3 TBs even though in our testing they were suprisingly quick for 5400 RPM drive.