Older newbie looking for storage advice...

galadial

galadial

galadial

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I'm looking into buying a larger SSD and HDD to increase my storage space. I've lost track with what's current in disk drives so was wondering what brands are conisdered reliable nowadays?

For the SSD i was looking into the Samsung EVO series:

For the HDD i was looking into the WD blue series:

Are there better altnerative? The SSD is for windows/games and the HDD is for multimedia storage (so it needs to be reliable as it has 30 years of photos). For backup I have an old 'drobo' drive.

Samsung 860 EVO 1 TB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive

deleyCON 3x 50cm (1.64 ft.) SATA III Nylon Cable Set Data Cable 6 Gbit/s Connector Connection Cable Main Board HDD SSD Hard Drive 1 S-ATA Connector 90° Angled Black Blue Red

Western Digital WD60EZAZ 6TB BLUE 256MB 3.5IN SATA 6GB/S 5400rpm




 
While Samsung was clear leader in SSDs earlier, nowadays Samsung leads only in brand overpricing.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t2b0a-hd-54j-wd.html
Heck, you could get lot faster speed potential NVMe drive for less than that Samsung SATA drive.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t2b0c-hd-56l-wd.html
(that PC of your sig doesn't support any M.2 drives)

And if you want reliability from storage, then you always backup and use also redundancy.
 
As said back in the 850 EVO days Samsung was the clear drive to go for
Nowadays they don't dominate like then
And 30 years of photos I would have
Multiple backups to be on the safe side
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
As said back in the 850 EVO days Samsung was the clear drive to go for
Nowadays they don't dominate like then
And 30 years of photos I would have
Multiple backups to be on the safe side
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I'd second that, I have a double drive backup PLUS clones to iDrive on a cloud, so if I lose the PC as a whole, I've still got everything on the cloud. I've even got a 4TB backup at a mates house that he keeps for me... I've had too many problems over 30 years to not do it... just when you think it's perfect and you're fine, boom a drive goes.
 
pugheaven said:
I'd second that, I have a double drive backup PLUS clones to iDrive on a cloud, so if I lose the PC as a whole, I've still got everything on the cloud. I've even got a 4TB backup at a mates house that he keeps for me... I've had too many problems over 30 years to not do it... just when you think it's perfect and you're fine, boom a drive goes.
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Yeah can't be too paranoid if it's irreplaceable data/photos /videos etc
Likewise I have a second drive I clone the main drive to
Got storage spaces set up with redundancy so if drive fails won't lose data
Got external hard drive Dock which is turned off to isolate it when not being used
Got 2 x 128gb flash drives for file history any new photos, videos, music etc automatically copy to those
Over the top perhaps but storage is cheap enough to do it
The thought of losing over 20 years of stuff is reason enough for me to do it
Seen too many people over the years lose
Stuff they could never replace
 
galadial said:
Would this drive have the standard connectors that the EVO SSD uses? Just wondering if the newer drives use the same ports/cablking systems as the older drives from 4-5 years ago?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t2b0a-hd-54j-wd.html
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Yeah it's standard SATA6G mate it's been around for years and will stay for years as well, it's the defacto at minute with M.2 being the new stuff so yeah all you need there is SATA cables which you'll have from your old stuff, all will be good mate.
 
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