Most reliable Hard Drives for 2015

[sidd finch]

Seagate hard drives may now be more reliable than Western Digital models, according to Backblaze's Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015. The failure rates in the bar chart above are cumulative from April 2013 to the end of 2015, by which time the company had 56,224 hard drives containing customer data in 1,249 Backblaze Storage Pods.

Backblaze added around 65 petabytes of storage last year. The company says: "nearly all of the 16,000+ drives purchased in 2015 have been Seagate drives." Of those, "over 85 percent were 4TB Seagate drives."

Full article: http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-most-r ... backblaze/



Sidd

[Bob]

Here's the original report.

[Gerlinde]

All my drives, internal and external are Seagates. Haven't had a problem so far My oldest external drive is over 10 years old. My Sony notebook has a Hitachi drive.

[Chuck Engels]

I started having issues with WD drives about 6 years ago, switched to Seagate and have been very happy. Also have a couple Toshiba and HGST drives, also with no issues. Looks like the failure rate on the larger drives, 2TB or higher, may be higher but WD seems to do better with the larger drives. Might just be the length of time those drives have been around. My largest drives are 2TB and I don't even really like keeping that much data all on a single drive.

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

I also had always bought WD HDDs but over the last two or three years I have been buying Seagate as they are cheaper. Only one of my HDDs is larger than 2TB and that is my NAS back up HDD which is a Seagate 4TB.

As and when the HDDS fail I will eventually be considering replacement with SSDs - but not just yet as the SSD prices have a way to fall before they become cost/effective replacements.

In the SSD stakes SanDisk offer a ten year guarantee but of course that is of limited value if one doesn't have a viable backup regime.

[sidd finch]

They did say that the 4TB drives seemed to be the hard drive choice. But for home usage that is a lot of data to have fail is something goes wrong.

Sidd

[Peru]

They did say that the 4TB drives seemed to be the hard drive choice. But for home usage that is a lot of data to have fail is something goes wrong.

Sidd

It also takes a lot of time to transfer 4 TB of data.

[Bob]

But for home usage that is a lot of data to have fail is something goes wrong.

All the more reason to make sure you regularly back up your disk drives.

In 1983, when it was introduced, the IBM XT came with a 10 MB hard drive. That was considered a lot of data back then. Today, you can get 128 GB on your phone. Times change as do needs. That 1983 disk drive wouldn't be able to hold even a single raw photo from my digital camera.

High definition multimedia is storage intensive and it's only going to get more so. I'm feeling the crunch and I'm not even working with 4K video yet. I'll be upgrading all my internal hard drives to 4 TB shortly. And, yes, they will be backed up regularly.

[Clayton]

I haven't posted in a long time, but still keep my membership up. That said, I am buying a new iMac and looking at external hard drives. I read good things about g-drives from g technology. Anyone had experience here?

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