Western Digital Or Toshiba Or Seagate HDD ? Which is better?

[George1986]

Which one do you recommend for archive? Tell if you have experience using any of these

[moonnoom]

Following. Im desperate need of storage but i dont know anything about hdd or ssd.
I have 1 tb internal hdd, im aiming for a 2 max 4 tb storage unit but not sure if its better to buy an external or internal disk.

[anon]

Which one do you recommend for archive?

For this purpose, my experience is that there isn't any noticeable difference between the three brands (regular and everyday usage are a different thing).

I don't own any SMR disks, but in theory there is no degradation in reliability, they just trade horrible rewrite speeds for extra capacity... an excellent compromise in this scenario, of course.

[snow_white]

It strongly depends on what you plan to do with it.

In my opinion, a 1TB SSD in your PC should be sufficient.
If you need more storage, I strongly recommend getting a NAS.

What exactly are you planning to do?


~S~W~

[anon]

In my opinion, a 1TB SSD in your PC should be sufficient.

Indeed, but make sure you get one with SLC flash and (optional but encouraged) keep an external HDD for stuff like browser caches and $TMP.

Note that SSDs are not fit for archiving since their data decays when unpowered for long enough. It's not "within one year or less" like some apocalyptic articles claim, but still, losing files is the opposite of what an archive is supposed to do.

[snow_white]

Yes, but in everyday use, you hardly notice any difference.

If your focus is on data backup, you need to be careful?
it?s a massive rabbit hole.

But to break it down into one key point: redundancy.

Every storage medium will fail eventually.
If you truly want to avoid data loss, you must build in redundancies.

[anon]

Every storage medium will fail eventually.
If you truly want to avoid data loss, you must build in redundancies.

I think all of us have learned that the hard way at some point

[tomted]

Between WD and Seagate, I've had about the same amount of failures from each over the last 25 years, out of 35-40 x 3.5" HDDs.

[anon]

the last 25 years

Within that same time period, I've only had two (at most?) disks fail.

• One Seagate Expansion that died completely after 19732 power-on hours, requiring an expensive data recovery process which took one month to finish. (Ironically I had chosen Seagate over Western Digital's equivalent products due to not having aggressive power management, which made them seem more reliable.)
• One Toshiba that may have been showing signs of degradation/slowdown after being unpowered for a few years, but didn't stop me from reinstalling Windows on that laptop before selling it (the buyer didn't complain of any problems afterwards).

Both 2.5" and with all SMART attributes in perfect shape at the time of noticing those issues, let that be a lesson to you all.

These days I just want to store as little as possible and have refrained from upgrading my storage on that basis, but large file sizes (we've gone from 700 MB full-length movies to 2 GB TV episodes) and my limited free time to watch/listen/read everything make it difficult

[snow_white]

Ironically, I haven't experienced any failures myself.
All my IronWolf drives have been running without issues.

In my circle, I've only seen one Toshiba HDD and one Samsung M.2 SSD fail.
However, it was never a problem in those cases because regular backups were performed or redundancy had been implemented.

[PanKalafior]

old HDD best had Samsung lates/current HDD have WD RED PRO or premium Gold/Ultrastar for NAS
SSD - best but expensive had samsung pro series
NVME wd black or patriot

Toshiba in HDD is mid disk its not perfect but not bad.

technicaly in BackBlaze you can see good info which disk models how ofen die in mass scale usage like cloud disk servers
https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-stor...rive-test-data

[anon]

old HDD best had Samsung

For a second I thought you were recommending getting an old Samsung disk, and was ready to agree (and anti-recommend Maxtor ) if you want to take that route.

The system drive on my old desktop was an IBM Deskstar (fortunately not the model with high failure rates) and lasted for ~15 years of everyday use before I gave that computer away.