Alright /g/ents, I'm looking for the most long-lasting hard drives OVER 1TB. I want to store a bunch of stuff and I want to know which hard drives will last for over a decade. They can be both internal or external. I'm in the EU so American pricing is kind of irrelevant to me.
>>106472300Just use tape.
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>>106472300>WD Golddefinitely not Western Kiketal
>>106472300If you are buying the major brands there is no real difference, failures tend to be pretty random and you can get a bum drive from any manufacturer. Also reminder that if you don't power them on regularly bitrot will claim your shit in a few years or even months on whatever drive you use.
>>106472300These will
>>106472300check external hdds on amazon, sometimes they are on sale way cheaper than internal one... buy 5 of them, take them out of the case and put them in RAID5 (or RAID6 if you are extra schizo) NAS
>>106472492>Also reminder that if you don't power them on regularly bitrot will claim your shitHow would power in them on help fight bitrot? It's not like spinning the platters does anything special.
any HDD over 8TB has helium in it, helium leaks out through tiny pores in the casing. you at most have 10 years with those drives, so youll have to buy a new one and xfer your data every 10 years. You should be doing that anyways but i do have a drive from 2012 that is still functioning, now if it had helium in it i doubt itd work because all those platters spinning without helium would overheat and itd die. >>106472829think he meant on SSDs, but if you just install something on an SSD and just leave it, not an OS drive, its essentially just a flash drive and will be fine without needing to error correct. you only need to power it on if you have been wearing the ssd out by writing and deleting a bunch on it so the cells are worn out
>>106472300If you're worried about the reliability of individual drives you're doing it wrong. Have at least 2 copies on different drives and validate them periodically. Either by filesystem scrub or sfv files. IME A-grade drives are less likely to have media degradation issues, but it's no substitute for a spare copy because you're guaranteed to have some instance of data loss eventually.
>>106472300wd gold are pretty good, got 2 myself. Also hgst.But not 10y.. they're like good for 5y and you usually get more out of them
>>106472300>What are the most durable hard drives?hard drives are rated for power on hoursdont boot it often and dont leave it powered on for longthat is the most durable hard drive
>>106472300Just buy anything and use RAID. Either it fails in the first year or two or lasts for a decade.
Just check the backblaze bloghttps://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2025/
>>106472300>>106473898thisRAID 10then just hotswap the failed HDD for a fresh one. I've had two fail in 7 years.
>>106472968>you at most have 10 years with those drivesLiesAt my work we track literally millions of drives. Even the earliest HGST Helium drives don't show any signs of leaking.We would know as it was tracked that some technician decided to open HDD ESD bags with a knife and caused a few thousand drives to leak from literal gouges in the case. They were preemptively replaced before they even failed.Don't abuse your drives and you won't have an issue.I get "new thing bad" but just because your miserable doesn't mean your BS is acceptable.
>>106474257>heliumpostingayylmao
There is no durable hard drive. They will all fail. It's why you buy two.
>>106474998but I'm poor :(
>>106475047Then buy smaller ones and just store less data.If you're too poor for that then you should just start deleting stuff.
>>106472300I've never had a WD fail on me.
>>106475057>just store less datalol no
>>106473832Oversimplification. They're rated by head park cycles, motor start / stops, and media is also graded. I've only killed a HDD with power-on hours once and it took 13 years.There's no reason to pay for enterprise drives with crazy overbuilt mechanical if you're never going to load it 24/7, but 7200 RPM / uncut platters will most def see a reduction in data loss.
