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what hardware should I buy for storage purposes? what brands? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I own several external 2.5'' HDDs on the 1 TB range where I save my data. Samsung has worked well for me, but now I need more space.

One option would be to buy an external SSD instead of HDD.

Another would be to get an external NVME, but so far I haven't found cases for them.

Nowadays we even have 1 TB flash drives, should I get one of these instead?

I could also buy 2 0.5 TB micro SD cards instead.

So many options make it difficult to decide.

What brands and technologies do you recommend?

Software is going to be debian based.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

WD/SanDisk have completely gone to shit. I’d go with Seagate. I have a bunch of IronWolf Pro drives that have been fast and reliable.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Entirely depends if you count HGST as Western Digital or not, because they by far dominate the back blaze reliability scoreboards. IronWolf don't even come close and are extremely hit or miss depending on capacity.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2023/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

What happened with WD? I've never had a drive from them go bad but I'd like to switch if that's going to change

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I have a Seagate Barracuda in my gaming rig and it's making really concerning sounds since the very beginning. Even my 12 years old laptop's drive isn't that bad