Which Portable 1-2TB HDD

[A745]

Hey

Which portable 1-2TB HDD should I pick? It's mainly for data transfers and storage. I want something that is quite realiable and will last longer than warrany period. Budget and local aviability matters, so not every option might apply. My current picks are such:

1TB: HGST Touro Pro/S
2TB: Toshiba Canvio (not sure model)

Also, are those "Backblaze" informations realiable? They provide some annualt reports with HDD failure rates, but many people say to not take it seriously. What's up with that?

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-dri ... s-q1-2016/

[Keatah]

The MOST RELIABLE drive you will ever encounter is the one that is backed up. That means 2 separate physical drives. Get 2 of whatever brand(s) you like.

If you do that you don't need to spend hours hunting and fretting over specs and reviews. Just get the size and interface you need. How cool is that?

[A745]

Quite obvious, hence the need for smaller 1-2TB when market standard is already over 4TB. The second one will be bought few weeks after first one. I could even buy one of each and have this problem solved instantly - but...

...but the drive will be ported over from place to place, and I heard in such sitation mechanicals failures might occur. Hence the quality of components or resitance to small shocks and such is a factor. Noboy does any realiable tests of Hard Disks durability.

Of course there are some models and companies that offer "durable" HDD's, like G-Tech ATC or ADATA SH93 but I'm more interested in soild internals than nice rubber cover.

And portable SSD's of such sizes are out, because simply they are not cost-effective.

[data-medics]

1TB: HGST Touro Pro/S
2TB: Toshiba Canvio (not sure model)

Those are both great choices. Top two in my opinion for externals. Don't bother with the rugged ones like the Lacie. Those usually have Samsung drives inside and still fail more often than the HGST or Toshibas do.

But as mentioned, no drive is ever 100% save. Two copies, or even more, is always the way to go.

[Keatah]

SSD should be more competitive in the next year or year'na'half. Huge improvements with parallelism and density will make them a premier choice.

Keep in mind they're more " black box" and backups are even more important. But of course much more shock resistant.

[jermy]

A few problems with ssd (as of now)

1. Capacity comparing prices
2. Reliability (losing data from heat)
Not to mention if you do need the service of DR most of the time its more expensive

So... still waiting for improvement especially on no. 1 & 2 mentioned above

[Keatah]

Samsung had recently stopped racing for small geometry. They backtracked to 40-nm process node. This should help with reliability.