Hi all,
I recently experienced a catastrophic crash of my 2x 4TB external Seagate HDs. I lost my entire Hi Res music library.
I’m looking for reliable HDs.
Any recommendations?
Thanks
No single drive is reliable enough. Go for a NAS with RAID setup.
Seagate IronWolf NAS drives are pretty good, WD Red also, HGST.
With hdd the right question is not “if happens” but “when it will happen” … then, as suggested, RAID1 is good practice but a stand-alone external backup should be “mandatory” too.
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Absolutely, RAID is not a backup. Back to external drive or online service, or both. There’s the 3-2-1 rule you should follow with the data you care about.
Hey guys, Thank you for your input
Hi there,
The only recommandation i have is to do backups ^^ no matter which HDD you have, it’s still mechanic inside…
I use WD Mybook 8 Tb, and a second as backup using CCC.
In case of crash simply switch Audirvana to the backup, buy a new one and redo a backup.
Simple as that and i can sleep well ^^
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Hi Lolodesiles,
Thanks for the advise!
What is CCC?
Ely
Got it,
Many thanks!
Agreed, but I think that WD Red is far more reliable than the Seagate.
Yes, I lost 2 Seagate HD’s within a week of each othe, still within the warranty period !!!
That was true until IronWolf series appeared, and now WD started to cheap out and use SMR on WD Reds in 2-6TB sizes.
Try to exchange those for IronWolfs or IronWolf Pros.
Sorry to hear about your problem.
Have a look here: https://www.servethehome.com/raid-calculator/raid-reliability-calculator-simple-mttdl-model/ - it will show you how reliable the different raid models are. As a minimum always look for a raid setup, and if possible something like RAID6 or RAID-Z2 (which uses 2 party disks).
In my opinion RAID is about continuity, very useful for data availability regardless of damage (with some obvious limits) for a company, data is business. RAID1 make sense to be used at home as you can deploy it with just a two bay nas, while RAID5/6 … are quite expensive in terms of hardware requirements (not less then three hdd). The concept of continuous availability is at home and for the music archive of relative importance, it is sufficient to always have a backup and a spare disk, it is much cheaper
Thank for the advise
Hi, certainly, I’ll look into that
Bonjour,
J’utilise des HDs WD Elements depuis 3 ans en permanence sans problème mais je sais qu’un jour quemque soit leur fiabilité ils auront une panne !
J’utilise 2 HDs en RAID 1 dans mon lecteur serveur réseau, et j’ai deux copies sur deux autre HDs, dans une autre pièce, reliés à mon PC ! Donc sauf incendie je suis couvert je pense…
Tout ça, inutile si incendie…
mets un backup ailleurs chez quelqu’un !
Sera pas à jour complètement mais tu auras pas tout perdu 