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| hinch said: Asking for personal experiences/ since graphs don't tell a full story.. (like sometimes depends on locale, batches etc) and I'm sure there are a few IT guys here I thought I ask, no disrespect. That graph does help though, cheers! And yeah looks like Hitachi and WD are the decent ones. Surprising since I heard bad things about WD HDD's. |
From my personal data hoarder research, I have found that the best hard drives to get for backups have a lot to do with the class of hard drive that you get for the price than just general reliability figures. For example, a Seagate PMR/CMR drive will be more reliable than Western Digital SMR drive.
The reason I say that is because one of the best ways to get a really good bang per buck backup hard drive is to get an "External" hard drive that has a more expensive prosumer drives with PMR/CMR inside it and such rather than just one that has a SMR drive or buying a more expensive off the shelf hard drive.
Here's what I mean. A while ago, I bought this external hard drive on sale for $250 CAD:
Now if you did a little research on the hard drive, you will find something interesting. While this looks like a normal Seagate external hard drive, inside it is infact a Seagate BarraCuda Pro which is a significantly better and much more reliable hard drive because it has CMR and etc tech. In Canada, an off the shelf Barracuda Pro costs more so around $400. At the time, all of the competitively priced western digital and etc hard drives had SMR so this was a real gem. But the funny thing is, if you instead gotten the 8TB model, you would get their normal SMR nonsense. And you can confirm this by running HWinfo once you get the hard drive.
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