Anyone got any recommendations or warnings about specific hdd / ssd / storage brands or models at the moment? Thinking about buying another drive instead of being smart and cleaning up my files. I’ve been pretty happy with Samsung but I’ve heard they had a clunker of a drive with high failure rates lately. HDD, SSD and I think I have an extra spare M2 nvme slot on my motherboard, so all recommendations are welcome. Price isn’t a huge concern, but I don’t feel the need to drop a thousand dollars on a single 22TB drive, anything 5TB and above will do fine for now.

  • @GuyNoIRQEnglish
    4•1 month ago

    For 2.5" SSD I’d suggest a Samsung Evo or crucial mx500. These will top out at like 4TB afaik.

    For 3.5" spinner I’d suggest an enterprise class HDD. Specifically WD Gold or HGST. Look up the most recent backblaze drive failure report for some models known to last a while.

    • fiat_luxOP
      2•1 month ago

      Yep, got a Samsung evo 870 in there, still going strong for like a decade. The HGST spinner I have is also pretty longlived. Weren’t they bought out by WD though? I feel like I remember hearing that the quality has declined severely.

      Having said that, I do also have a WD … black? In there that has also lasted. I will check out gold though, and the mx500

      backblaze drive failure report

      Excellent, this is what I was hoping to find again but i couldn’t remember the name. I also assumed it would be paywalled after all these years… if I could even get google to deliver the link.

      Thanks a heap, you’ve been extremely helpful!