As my friend's Sandisk G-Drive Armoratd is going to die. Crystal Disk Info shows caution on this drive and has 1 Current Pending Sector Count. Please Suggest me an external 5TB HD for copying all the data from his Sandisk G-Drive Armoratd to the new One that you're gonna Suggest me. Thank You!

Anything that's not a SMR drive.

A 3.5" drive would be more reliable.

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A backup a day keeps DR away.

I agree that a 3.5" disk drive would be dramatically better. I suggest a USB enclosure and use that disk for backups.

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USB 3.5" enclosures are $19 USD postage paid from China, I own several

How do I know that I'm buying an SMR Drive?? Is there any marks or labels to identify the drives?? Please guide me in this situation!

People any Brand name for suggestions??

And a friend of mine who owns a Data Recovery Store and he suggests me to buy a Lacie 5TB 2.5" Drive or a Seagate 5TB 2.5" HD! Is it good people??

BTW my friend is a Musician and a singer he travels a lot what do I do??

SMR disks are slow to write but are the same for read speeds. In USB enclosure the difference is unimportant. If the data is important, make a duplicate copy to a second hard disk so that in the case of error, peace of mind is safe.

I buy USB enclosures all the time as disks get bumped from RAID boxes etc. Such disks are perfect for redundant backups.

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USB 3.5" enclosures are $19 USD postage paid from China, I own several

I would not suggest using anything larger than 2TB in a 2.5in "portable" factor. I'm sure many would argue, but they're simply fragile and most are SMR which adds to their complexity.

I'm not going to name brands or models, search / google / etc.

I had an old 2TB Seagate 2.5" disk in an old SATA class laptop years ago. The disk was slow but it was good for importing music as the machine had an integrated DVD drive so used it for importing music.

I moved towards SATA SSD back when 500GB came to market. Once 8th gen laptops surfaced they came with tiny M.2 SSD and I started buying 2TB M.2 SSD from a wide rage of vendors.

Once I swapped the old hard disk out I installed a SATA SSD and continued importing music until I found a USB UHD BD drive on fleabay. Now I used the USB drive and a modern machine. The old machine is now mothballed.

The old Seagate 2TB disk is now stuffed in a USB box and I use it for backups. Disk drive is slow but for backups it can make do.

I have not seen any 7mm class hard disks > 2TB. So larger capacity 3.5" disks is why I have been buying for decades.

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USB 3.5" enclosures are $19 USD postage paid from China, I own several

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decades?