Hard Drive Reliability

[D0M1N13]

Hello Forum !



I am planning on buying a 3.5" hard drive to put into my Icy Dock enclosure ( http://www.icydock.c...oods.php?id=145 ), although I heard that the best enclosures are the ones that have a build in fan like. I was also thinking about this enclosure ( http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=148 ). Which would you recommend ?

Getting back to my other question that I was going to ask ... so which hard drive should I buy for storage ? The main purpose of the hard drive that I will buy will be to store my data ( photos, documents, etc ). When I researched on what hard drive manufacturer is the most reliable, there was no straight answer. So, instead of me asking for you to tell me what is the most reliable hard drive out there, I want to know what hard drive you guys have inside your external enclosures or your desktop PC's and how long do you have the hard drive for ? Is it giving you any problems ? Does it run cool ? I have my eye set on three hard drives so far for storage use and these are:



1. Western Digital Blue

2. Western Digital Green

3. Western Digital Red



I had Western Digital before and it served me well. I had no problems with my last WD hard drive, that is why I am planning on sticking to WD. I don't trust Seagate that much, as two times I bought Seagate and it failed on me around 1.5 year.

I heard some complaints with the Western Digital Green's, claiming that the drives fail within a year due to their "head parking" a lot. WD Reds are mostly used for NAS or RAID systems, but can also be used solo.

Please guys and gals, provide your feedback to me. Thank you !

[fzabkar]

FWIW, this blog is doing the rounds at the moment:
http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/wh ... uld-i-buy/

You might like to read this article for some balance, though:
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/6028/ ... index.html

[ShaneWard]

Use the Seagate drives and always have a second drive to copy things onto once a month or weakly for backup. You should be fine for life.

Like the enclosure, I'll make a note of that...

Shane

[D0M1N13]

Use the Seagate drives and always have a second drive to copy things onto once a month or weakly for backup. You should be fine for life.

Like the enclosure, I'll make a note of that...

Shane

ShaneWard - Did you open up both of my enclosure links ? Because I tried the first one and it didn't work I tried the second one and it did.

Anyways.. the first enclosure was called the IcyDock ICYBento MB559U3S-1SB. The second one is called the IcyDock BLIZZARD MB080U3S-1SB.

I decided that I will go with a 2.5" inch hard drive and with another enclosure: http://www.raidsonic.de/en/products/ext ... ectID=8818 If you can't open up this link it is called the Icy Box IB-228U3Eb

[jerovsek]

Hello,

if you would like to buy WD, buy black series.
Hitachi is also a good choice

But, no matter which disk you buy, you need to regulary backup your data