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.
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:
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.
Seagate have always worked perfectly for me (knock on wood). And to avoid counterfeits i only buy hard drives from a physical store of a large retailer chain. You’ll pay a little bit more, but really only a very little more, and you’ll know that what you’re buying is an authentic drive that came directly from the manufacturer
I second this! I hope you get many years of service from your drive, but I haven’t had much luck with Seagate, personally.
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.
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:
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.
Seagate have always worked perfectly for me (knock on wood). And to avoid counterfeits i only buy hard drives from a physical store of a large retailer chain. You’ll pay a little bit more, but really only a very little more, and you’ll know that what you’re buying is an authentic drive that came directly from the manufacturer
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