Is there any particular type of drive or drive manufacturer you have had good or bad luck with? I've been looking at upgrading my storage and was leaning towards Hitachi as I have had the best luck with them in the past.
Pic related. A collection of my dead hard drives through the years.
inb4 that shitty backblaze test
anything you buy is 100% luck of the draw, period. you aren't cramming 50 of these into an enterprise enclosure and running them 24/7 hard like that company that some retard will undoubtedly post.
you could have a fucking maxtor or a deskstar and it could last 20 fucking years.
the only drive that is generally regarded as the best spinner is a WD raptor, those are fucking rock solid motherfuckers. but if you want high capacity storage get a red
You realize some of those drives have 5 year warranty, right?
>>51285794
this
>>51285819
also get one with a long warranty like this dude says
always back up your datars
>>51285751
Hitachi is considered reliable, so you might as well go with them.
>>51285794
Yeah, that's kind of what I figured. I do have 2 of the WD raptors and those have been great.
>>51285770
>backblaze
Weren't those the idiots who just put a bunch of random drives including second hand and refurbished drives, left them running for a while and then tried to pass it as an actual serious scientific study?
>>51286063
I actually beard that there was an entire generation gap for some of their mounts that they used in the test.
>Top Tier
HGST
>Good tier
WD
>Shit tier
Seagate
That's all you need to know.
>>51286929
Where's samsung?
>>51286963
Just talking mechanical hard drives. For SSD's Samsung, Crucial, and Intel are the kings.
i got 10 1 tb hdds wd drives in raid 0 all drive ovet 22000 howers powerd on
>>51286963
Seagate owns Samsung's drive division now so Samsung and Seagate mean the same thing.
Also WD owns Hitachi (HGST) so they're the same thing too.
Just buy a WD Black. Blues are fine for local storage, Reds are good for NAS. Stay away from Greens.
>>51286971
There's samsung HDDs, external ones.
>>51286996
>10 TB
>RAID 0
>WD
i see you are a man who values his data
>>51287016
Autist
Seagate is bad. Avoid them.
WD hasn't failed me once.
I've had several Seagates, WDs, and Hitachis. Of the 4 Hitachis I've had one failed. That is my only HD ever to fail.
>>51286929
>>51286063
source plz
>>51285794
>anything you buy is 100% luck of the draw, period.
But that's wrong, you fucking retard.
>>51285751
of maybe fifteen or so 3.5" SATA drives I've purchased in the last decade, every manufacturer (WD, Seagate, Hitachi, Samsung) has had at least one disk DOA or otherwise prematurely dead except my current HGSTs, and that's likely partly just chance.
the main thing to know is that you should store anything you care about on a RAID5 equivalent or better backed file server and probably consider keeping offsite backups for anything that's absolutely critical.
just use well-regarded NAS-branded drives, buy them at different times from different suppliers to reduce the chances of correlated failure from manufacture, and be prepared to deal with inevitable drive death as your server gets long in the tooth.
>>51288511
no it isn't you dumb shit. under normal use you will not predict the lifetime of a drive, you get a bad one or a good one, when will it fail? who knows
>>51285794
This, I work for EMC we use almost all brands.
>>51285751
Old Seagate has never let me down, I still use a '99 8GB Medalist drive just for fun. It seemed to take shit after 2007
>>51285751
The only hard drive I've had die on me was a ~11 year old WD Raptor (not Velociraptor) 16gb 10krpm ATA drive.
It ran 24/7 for all 11 years.
Shitgate is awful
>>51286063
Except they don't pass it off as a scientific study, they pass it off as raw data.
The only idiots are the people who draw false conclusions from it.
>>51287014
>Also WD owns Hitachi (HGST) so they're the same thing too.
They're still different product lines. HGST makes enterprise-grade drives and huge archive drives, WD's are more consumer oriented.
Just the noise alone should be enough to prove that an ultrastar is nothing like what WD sells.
>>51285751
Seagate Constellation ES.3 drives only.
I've heard of people having good luck with WD and Hitachi. Toshiba drives almost always fail within a couple years or so.
