Hi.

I usually buy Western Digital Elements to save huge data (as films in Blu-ray or gameplays) but i want to know if there are still the best option to portable external hard drive disk. I only pursue three things:

  1. Huge capacity.

  2. Big lifespan.

  3. Competitive price.

I know the typical sentences as “the average lifespan is 3/4 years” or “the external hard drive disk can last 1 minute or 20 years”. But i want to know in this moment, which is the best brand, the best model to guarantee (as far as possible) that the hard drive disk last many years.

Thanks in advance!

  • WikiBox@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Look at the warranty. It is somewhat correlated with longevity. The best hdds, for stationary use, have 5 years warranty. No idea about portable hdds. Do they come with any warranty?

    Apart from that, there is no way to know when a portable hdd will fail.

    Today I’d never use a portable hdd. Only ssd.

  • rajmahid@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I must be the luckiest guy on the planet because of the 12 external drives I have, the earliest being from 2002, the latest 2019 (WD, Toshiba & Seagate) have not had a single failure. They’re used for plex, archiving music & movies. I perform my own crude manual “raid” by storing each new file in 2 separate HDs as I get it. I fully understand drives do eventually fail, so I’m somewhat covered with doubling up my files.