Which external hard drive is more reliable for storing information?

Question

Iron

I choose an external hard drive for 3-5 TB, I used to use Seagate / Toshiba / WD with volumes of 0.5 / 1 and 2 TB, and they all died, for the most part due to the fact that the wire was leaving. Anyway, tell me if you had experience with 3-5TB external hard drives, which one is more reliable. Ideally in the price segment up to 10k. Advise what external hards are most long-lived.

Answer 1

The most reliable discs are those that do not break, but I have not seen such ones. Buying any disc is a lottery, the choice is always yours and important data must be backed up constantly.

Answer 2

Reliable hard drives are a utopia. A backup is necessary in any case.

Answer 3

None if you can’t even plug in a wire normally, use cloud backups

Answer 4

Dealing with external HDDs and, just like you, faced with their failure, I now practice only a separate box with a USB-3 tail, and in it is an HDD from a laptop. Firstly, it is cheaper, since such disks are made more massively, moreover, one box can have many filling disks and rearrange them. Secondly, again, due to the mass character, laptop disks are more reliable, since they are better worked out, and they have a much wider choice of models (among them there are specially more reliable ones). Thirdly, if some part (USB-SATA controller or filling) fails, it is not necessary to change the entire set, but only it.
I recommend the same to you.

Answer 5

Low budget and good quality unfortunately rarely coincide in one place.
On the topic - the hard drives themselves, if reliable ones are needed, I would take from the server ones, with an increased time between failures. Of the parameters - the minimum power consumption, one plate, ideally one head.
There are no sharp corners on the body, they themselves are not made of iron-aluminum, but silicone or rubber.
For example https://www.amazon.com/ineo-Waterproof-Shockproof-... or www.ssi.com.tw/product/si-1126us3-hdd-enclosure-fo... or silverstonetek.com/ product.php?pid=644&area=en
By wire - it is best to use thick wires, the minimum length.
There was also a friend who never connected a hard drive directly, but always via a USB hub (although it was taped to the hard drive with electrical tape) - as protection against polarity reversal. But there the case itself was expensive (zalman ve-300)
PS: If the data is expensive, then only backups, backups and backups in one more place. No, even the most secure case will help against all possible problems.