Which external HDD to choose for storage?

Question

Hard disks

My collections of photos/videos/music are about to no longer fit on a computer, so it is no longer possible to postpone the purchase of an external hard drive for 2-4 TB. After wandering through the reviews a little, it became clear that people are most concerned about the speed of reading and moving data. And from the reviews from eBay and Amazon, we can conclude that the models from the reviews have a very large percentage of defects - 200 "ones" to 2000 "fives" (a particularly bright series of negatives is observed on Seagate brand hard drives). Everyone has about the same story: with the usual careful and not very frequent use, it suddenly closes in a couple of months. In the best case - in six months. In general, I do not know how to choose. I would not want to buy a gadget for $150-200 and lose both it and all the information stored on it in a short time. Besides,
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Do not offer RAID, I still have to carry it with me. Will interact with Windows. Recommendations on choosing a method for connecting a subject to a computer are welcome :)

Answer 1

Well, I would not advise storing something important on one disk) Absolutely.
There are no external 2.5-drives for 4 TB.
And so - StoreJet (those that are in old cases, like this - www.capture.ru/image/SJ25M.jpg ). I have such years commercials 5 already lives on 640g.
Another question is that someday he will still die.

Answer 2

Why external, so that it is comfortable to wear? buy the inner one and carry it in a plastic box, that's what I do. I have all WD drives RE series, they are for servers and have high reliability. I recommend the same to you. better to overpay for a more reliable drive and sleep peacefully.

Answer 3

Such volumes are not recommended for transfer. Take two. One for transfer, the second for permanent storage.
For transferring a small one, such as HDD USB3 My Passport Ultra 500GB.
For persistent storage, I would suggest splurge on network storage. QNAP TS-420 NAS with WD green disks has been working at my house for 3 years now 24x7
. Very convenient. All discs are fine. SMART Doesn't swear. So WD can be trusted.

Answer 4

-=For portable=-
There are containers from ZALMAN (for 2"5)
www.nix.ru/autocatalog/HDDBox_Zalman/Zalman_ZMVE40...
"Universal external container with built-in virtual drive controller. Allows you to connect the device to a computer as an optical drive, the desired ISO image is selected using the built-in LCD screen
. The volume of supported HDDs is not specified, 1TB works for me.A useful feature is the virtual disk controller.
In the \\_ISO\ directory (it is possible in it and in a subdirectory), we write ISO images of the necessary disks (boot installation, repair, Live-CD, DVD, Blue-ray), which can then be mounted into a virtual ZALMAN and work with it, as with external CD/DVD/Blue-ray drive.
HDD - selected according to user requirements (speed, reliability, volume).
-=For stationary=-
In addition - there were docking stations (ZM-MH200 U3, from the same ones), for two screws (3.5 "or 2.5") with USB3.0,
or from others for one screw ...
Here I use GREEN for 1.5, 2.0, 3.0 TB (by the way, banks from Z - "Support for disks with a capacity of more than 3 TB (tested in NIKS)")