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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Orico DS500C3-US-BK 5-disk 3.5" SATA, iTGZ 4x M.2 2280 Thunderbolt enclosure NVMe/SATA, etc. etc.

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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Orico DS500C3-US-BK 5-disk 3.5" SATA, iTGZ 4x M.2 2280 Thunderbolt enclosure NVMe/SATA, etc. etc.