New Hard Drive (For Backup)

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I'm running out of space on my primary backup drive, which is a Samsung 2 TB drive in an external akasa caddy, connected by e-sata, and which has been inherently reliable.

The external caddy is going to be retained and a new 3 TB drive fitted, but does any one have any strong advice about which drive manufacturer and which model drive is now 'the best' out there, at the moment? As I've said, I've had no trouble with the Samsung drive and I've also had no trouble with the two WD drives in my PC.

Thanks in advance,

Cliff
 
I think you could pretty much add any HDD manufacturer to the following statement.

"I wouldn't touch a XXXXXXXXX drive if my life depended on it!!

or

"I will only ever use XXXXXXX as they've never failed on me!"

You will find the same name appearing in both statements. :bonk:
 
You're so right there, but real life, good experiences must exist!
 
I prefer WD drives but have had two which have come up with bad sectors so as above just get one you like and make sure you have a backup.
 
I've currenlty ogt a Toshiba, 2 seagates and 2 WD hard drives in my 2 machines and never had an issue with any of them. The only HD I've ever had an issue with was a second hand one I acquired and used as my 3rd back up drive which dies after 6 months.
 
chphotos said:
You're so right there, but real life, good experiences must exist!
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As Shadow said. Most drives are very very reliable these days. Fwiw, I like to keep really important data on AWS S3/Glacier. Dirt cheap @ $0.06/GB for S3. Glacier even cheaper.
 
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