What would you do?

[pimpin-tl]

I just lost my 3tb seagate internal and 2tb external drive at the same time. Yeah. Thankfully I started a cloud backup 2 months ago so all my data is backed up. But I am done with seagate crap.

So, would you buy two new drives to replace these and keep the same setup? My external was the local backup drive for my internals. Or just get an external and the backup goes to the cloud?

I use crashplan.com.

Looking at a hgst internal and an western digital my book external. I saw the passport external too and wondered as it doesn't require power it would be worth looking at?


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[pimpin-tl]

Link to the topic of my hds failing. http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2481855


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[PliotronX]

I would have at least two for you: a dual bay diskless NAS with two WD RE4 drives in RAID-1 and for data that won't change but is priceless, BDR Mdisc blanks. USB externals are not trustworthy as 24/7 backups and you cannot run recovery software on them because the disks inside are no longer standard SATA thanks to Backblaze screwing it up for everyone.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Everybody has different needs and different budgets. I had a 4-drive RAID5, a few RAID0 setups and two hardware controller cards with DRAM buffers of 250MB -- a 3Ware and a Highpoint.

Nowadays, I try and build systems with a disciplined number of disks, while I keep my server working impeccably. And I have a backup system for all workstations and the server, but the less-frequent cycles require my manual attention.

I've heard so much over last couple years about Seagate letdowns, but I did my own analysis for choosing NAS 2TB drives and settled on the Seagate NAS's. I've just never had a problem: I even RMA'd one of them and then realized that the problem I had with it wasn't caused by the drive. It was an unnecessary RMA.

So given that, go WD or HGST. Even the WD Blue drives seem reliable, and my caching solutions more than compensate for Blue performance, at the same time reducing the stress, wear and tear on the HDD. I'd wager the HGST's are as good or better than WD Black drives, and I know they are more expensive.

 

[Elixer]

I would have at least two for you: a dual bay diskless NAS with two WD RE4 drives in RAID-1 and for data that won't change but is priceless, BDR Mdisc blanks. USB externals are not trustworthy as 24/7 backups and you cannot run recovery software on them because the disks inside are no longer standard SATA thanks to Backblaze screwing it up for everyone.

There are still many externals out there that use normal SATA drives.
However, some enclosures have hardware encryption always on, and THAT will screw up ANY attempt at data recovery if the enclosure goes belly up.

For the OP, all drives will fail, there is no getting around it. Cloud backup is nice, but, I also like to have all important data on more than one device. It doesn't have to be online all the time.

 

[pimpin-tl]

agreed. But what items can I get today to use as locally on my workstation within a reasonable budget to have this work? My board is a msi z87-gd65.


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[pimpin-tl]

So I purchased a 6TB Black WD drive. Installed and restoring all my stuff to it now. Yay! It's a snappy drive and will give me many years.

 

[denis280]

Don't know why,but Seagate always have problem.But WD very rare.all hard drive failure i fixed was seagate.

 

[pimpin-tl]

Don't know why,but Seagate always have problem.But WD very rare.all hard drive failure i fixed was seagate.

Yeah, same here. I won't buy another.

 

[Elixer]

Don't know why,but Seagate always have problem.But WD very rare.all hard drive failure i fixed was seagate.

You ask me, they are both using crappier & crappier parts to get higher profit margins, so it is a race to the bottom.
I have had all brands fail on me, some we had some kind of warning (usually sector issues), others with 0 warning.