Which external drive to choose for cold storage of backups?

Question

Iron

Good day!
The question arose about the need to store backups of personal data on some external device.
Having gone to pick up an external screw, it seemed (judging by the reviews in different places) that the price and brand were not a guarantee for a long time, and now the situation resembles a lottery.
An external screw is needed, where data will be added from time to time (very rarely), 99% of the time it will lie in a disabled form in a drawer.
The main criterion is the reliability of the device. Read / write speeds are a secondary issue (but USB3 is still desirable).
Volume - 500GB - 1TB. Some kind of shock resistance is desirable.
Budget 5 000 r. +- 1000 rub.

Answer 1

If you need a budget and more popular - first of all, you need to pay attention to the spindle speed and volume. The smaller both parameters - the better in this situation. Braked propellers last longer due to less wear. Plus, you need to take care of protection against power surges in the network, which can simply ruin the file system - not all data will be erased, however, but those that are not erased will be a mess of files with incomprehensible names.
I added a laptop screw for 5400 rpm, 512GB to the system, I put important rubbish there.

Answer 2

Anyone, in the context of one order, it has a 50/50 chance of breaking.
Either it breaks or not, regardless of the brand and model.
It is clear that now, compared to the old days, disks are more reliable.

Answer 3

Options.
1. Any 2 screws, combined in a RAID1 array
2. Any 2 screws, on which copies are made with handles
3. Cloud:
You can still find (for little money, of course) mail.ru accounts with 1 TB
Also mega.nz gives a lot of places
Chinese clouds - a lot of space, little speed. Google
Paid account on any existing cloud (yandex, google, dropbox, etc)
Synchronization of two different clouds via cloudhq.net or similar
4. Combination of all of the above (I use hard + mail cloud for archive)

Answer 4

it seemed (judging by the reviews in different places) that the price and brand were not a guarantee for a long time

They were never a guarantee.

The main criterion is the reliability of the device

Then you can safely choose any disk.
They are all unreliable.
If you need reliable storage of information, make a backup.

Answer 5

Any. Based on the stated requirements, pure taste.
I'll answer with a quote:
Yes, like this.

Answer 6

Any screw that has "RAID edition" in its description. That is, not a screw for a desktop, but a screw for 24x7 operation in RAID arrays. Such screws can be noticeably more expensive, but in terms of reliability, they are subject to increased requirements. And even by weight you can immediately distinguish it - it weighs twice as much!

Answer 7

If you need shock protection, then you can recommend an SSD or a USB flash drive. even a rubberized hard drive case won't help much in the event of a fall or bump. If you need to store it securely on 2 media and in different places. Of course, it is unlikely that the hard drive will break, especially if it is not used too often, but no one has repealed the law of meanness.