what are the best hard drives for reliability these days? need abotu 5tb of storage!

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and would it be better to have several 1tb or 2tb drives instead of a big one so there are more points of failure?? I read years ago that seagates were unreliable but im not sure thats the case anymore!
 
It varies by model, most people also use data from Backblaze which is not ideal for comparative purposes (24/7 in a DC with a chassis full of other drives vs your personal PC) and by the time they have a reasonable data set to look at, the drives themselves are often past the optimum £/GB point. Generally people seem to like WD’s, personally warranty has never been what I would describe as amazing, I have had multiple DOA’s for warranty replacements, and you are usually given re-certified drives, even if you have paid full whack for an advanced replacement.

The other part of your question concerns me, if a drive fails, you have a backup anyway right? The optimum at present is roughly £17/TB last I looked, but that’s based on 12TB externals and once you split the case, warranty is unlikely.
 
im not sure what backblaze is but good point about backup i guess i would normally just have any important data on two different drives in the pc and some stuff is on the cloud but i dont have a proper backup plan or anything
 
RAID is not a substitute for a backup, it never has been and shouldn’t be confused with being. People don’t use R5 now with modern drive sizes as it’s mathematically guaranteed to result in an imperfect rebuild, that leaves R1 and protection against single drive failure. I’d suggest considering what is important to you and how it’s backed up before buying anything, imagine literally everything you have was gone, what are you not going to be able to replace/miss? That needs to be backed up.
 
would mostly be inconvenient to be honest ha ha movies and games and things id need to re download from various places

pictures are all on my onedrive or google drive from my phone auto upload or on the old memory cards from my camera (a sort of backup ha, i just keep them and get new ones)
 
my stuff is stored on six drives which are a mix of 250gb 320 and 500 at the moment ha ha most of them are old

want to pack it all down onto one or two drives in my new computer !
 
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