I want a very reliable hard drive which also has a lower price. I’ve looked online and found an argument for practically every brand there is. I just wanted to ask here for recommendations, what do you guys use? Thank you!

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Buy multiple drives, setup some sort of raid, setup some sort of backup. Then set up a 2nd backup.

    Done.

    All drives from all manufacturers are going to fail at more or less the same rate (see: backblaze’s stats) and trying to buy a specific thing to avoid the death which is coming for all drives is, mostly, futile: at the absolute best you might see a single specific model to avoid, but that doesn’t mean entire product lines are bad.

    I’m using some WD red drives which are pushing 8 years old, and some Seagate exos drives which are pushing 4, and so far no issues on any of the 7 drives.