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Just got a fantastic gift from my husband :) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/pcgaming

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So excited to consolidate my mess of drives and get a big boost to my storage.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Any recommendations for reliable storage?

Recommendations are difficult, because reliability varies from model to model (even within the same brand) and there is no useful data until a model is more than a few years old. What we can do is follow the data available from an independent source with large sample sizes:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/category/cloud-storage/hard-drive-stats/

My personal experience over the most recent 15 years:

WD mechanical drives generally offer the best balance of longevity, price, and noise among the brands I've tried.
Hitachi drives do well on reliability (perhaps better than WD) but can be too loud for a home environment.
Seagate drives fail so often that I won't use them any more, unless they're free, second-hand, and given only disposable data.
I have no recent experience with Toshiba.