Any recommendations for reliable storage? I need new drives but I’ve put off buying any for years with all the bad reviews and counterfeit products making me weary of any deal that seems too reasonable or model with known issues.
I just did some reading, and while Seagate drives had problems around 2012 -2016, they seem to work about as well as any other drive now. I’d go for the best deal, personally.
I’ve had WD since 2008 and have never had a drive die on me. My 2008 drive is currently in my system and has a error, its my torrent drive and I had 1.5 Gbit internet and just thrashed the drive and she’s still plugging away. Had bought a 18tb WD Red drive and it was DOA and got sent back a UltraStar.
Recommendations are difficult, because reliability varies from model to model (even within the same brand) and there is no useful data until a model is more than a few years old. What we can do is follow the data available from an independent source with large sample sizes:
Any recommendations for reliable storage? I need new drives but I’ve put off buying any for years with all the bad reviews and counterfeit products making me weary of any deal that seems too reasonable or model with known issues.
I just did some reading, and while Seagate drives had problems around 2012 -2016, they seem to work about as well as any other drive now. I’d go for the best deal, personally.
I’ve had WD since 2008 and have never had a drive die on me. My 2008 drive is currently in my system and has a error, its my torrent drive and I had 1.5 Gbit internet and just thrashed the drive and she’s still plugging away. Had bought a 18tb WD Red drive and it was DOA and got sent back a UltraStar.
So no matter what YMMV
Recommendations are difficult, because reliability varies from model to model (even within the same brand) and there is no useful data until a model is more than a few years old. What we can do is follow the data available from an independent source with large sample sizes:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/category/cloud-storage/hard-drive-stats/
My personal experience over the most recent 15 years: