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JiggleTits
7y

External hard drive reliability question.

Im looking for a 2-4 TB external harddrive, depending on the price (best bang per buck).

I found a Seagate Backup Plus Portable, 4TB. It seemed reasonable, until i googled failure rates of seagate drives.

Do you guys have any recommendations for me? Anything is appreciated :)

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western digital

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seagate

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  • 1
    7y
    I use Western digital. But idk, failure rates usually come with extensive use and I hardly use my external drive. It's not like I'm going to spin up a server on it.

    But yeah, I like WD. I don't know why anymore really. Used them for years.
  • 0
    7y
    @BigBoo @sabbonaut
    What both of you say made me step closer to Seagate.

    I alsp think youre right about the "only if you spin up a server on it" part, Boo ;)
  • 1
    7y
    @JiggleTits Yeah I feel like. You are probably not going to use it that much. Just go with whatever is cheaper. As long as it's new it should last for a while.
  • 0
    7y
    Don't get anything portable, you will just drop it.
  • 0
    7y
    @raldo94 i won't. Theres a difference of dropping it and tossing it :)
  • 0
    7y
    @rEaL-jAsE cant tell if youre joking or serious
  • 1
    7y
    I have been using a WD one for last 2 years. No problem so far. Haven't tried Seagate.
  • 1
    7y
    I use one of my 2tb wd in my server with sync to external Nas with 2x 3tb wd red in raid 1 on 10gbit fiber between them.
  • 2
    7y
    Always check https://backblaze.com/blog/... for real failure rate data.
  • 2
    7y
    I use a Western Digital My Passport Air 1TB and have for the last 2/3 years. Works amazing at very reasonable speeds
  • 1
    7y
    @andrejus @Proximyst seems like im on the look for a Western Digital :P
  • 0
    7y
    look out for an mean written data (or similar) before crash or per year(i dont remember it well)
  • 0
    7y
    @stop im not sure i understand that
  • 1
    7y
    @JiggleTits its an value that means that you can write thus amount of data per year or lifetime before it breaks.
  • 0
    7y
    @stop ah, makes sense
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