My Toshiba 2tb internal is dying on me already, I'm getting IO errors.
What manufacturer should I buy from that will not die on me within the first year or so?
There is no hard drive manufacturer that will sell you a drive that won't fail within a year.
All they can sell you is probabilities. Every manufacturer has about a 3% annual failure rate, so basically you are unlucky.
>>55471855
Total power fantasy shit in pic related, sick
Get a smaller, but faster and more reliable SSD, you can monitor it's health with CrystalDiskInfo and if still find you don't have enough space you can always hookup an slimlined external harddrive to a USB 3.0 or eSata port(if you motherboard has one), keep your most used programs on your SSD and all the other shit on the External.
I haven't been keeping up with HDD companies rep, so I can't recommend you any brands though.
Nice image.
>>55471922
This is for a file server, SSD is too small here.
I'm almost out of space on my current one.
>>55471900
Fucking hell, why are they so fucking fragile?
>>55471940
Moving parts, 24/7 workload.
>>55471968
I heard that lower capacity drivers are a lot more stable.
Would getting 2x1tb drives and LVM them together be a better choice?
>>55471940
>Fucking hell, why are they so fucking fragile?
I'm still using a 3Gig Quantum Fireball I bought in 1997. It was powered on in a file server for 12 years; I now use it as a boot drive in an old bare metal DOS box.
It's a month away from its 19th birthday, still works fine.
>>55472037
Then why are the newer ones so shit and beak easily?
>>55472057
Dunno mate.
I've been lucky with spinners. I've only experienced two hard drive deaths in twenty years.
do what i do
buy two of any drive you buy and use one for storage and the other one to clone it from time to time
>>55472057
It could be a power issue.
Dirty power supplies can kill components. You can buy a cheap device that monitors the output of your PSU. Might be worth geting one just for peace of mind.
>>55472146
When I say "dirty", i don't mean "dirt". I mean unreliable; power spikes, etc...
>>55471855
Your best bet is HGST
>>55472159
That may be the case, it's an old machine.
>>55472205
How's this?
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/27270/hgst-deskstar-nas-3tb-0s03662
>>55473011
Looks good.
Refer to:
http://bioinformare.blogspot.com.au/2016/02/survival-analysis-of-hard-disk-drive.html
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/
https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html
for more details.
>>55473057
Thanks, HGST does look like the best choice here.
