2T hard drive for backup choice

[thinksloth]

I am seeking suggestions for hard drive backup.
My usage for this hard drive:
- will not connect to pc all the time, only connected when backup perform
- not regular backup, only put new files.

I googled that wd green is not recommend although is power saving, and wd black is mainly for os, other brands not familiar.

Do anyone suggest some hard drive model that suit for my usage?

Thanks

 

[smitbret]

That's like asking which microwave you should get to boil 1 mug of water everyday. It doesn't matter. Just find the least expensive, external USB 3.0 drive at the moment and call it good.

 

[smitbret]

That's like asking which microwave you should get to boil 1 mug of water everyday. It doesn't matter. Just find the least expensive, external USB 3.0 drive at the moment and call it good.

 

[Nothinman]

I've had enough drives die on me that I use RAID1 for any kind of long term storage now. Hard drives are pretty much a commodity now so it doesn't matter too much, but I do tend to shy away from the "green" drives.

 

[jkauff]

I have 4 3TB Western Digital My Books that I got on sale for $129 each at Staples. All Green drives, all connected with USB 3.0. There's a slight "wake-up" delay, but since they're all used for storage it's a minor issue. All transfer faster than my eSATA 2 external drive (also a WD Green). Speeds got even better with the recent Intel chipset update. I've never had a WD drive go bad on me, and the capacity is so large I have my backups backed up on separate drives.

My wife has a new Macbook Pro, and I bought her a WD Passport drive for Time Machine backups. It's a 2.5" drive, USB 3.0, and USB powered so there's no cord. She keeps it in a drawer most of the time. That might be a good option for you.

 

[Red Squirrel]

For backups it does not matter too much, as even if it fails you have the original, and possibly other backups. I'd just go with whatever is cheapest. If buying a lot buy two different brand/models in case it turns out one of the models has a known issue. Every now and then it will happen that a certain make/model is basically failed by design. Ex: the Seagate 7200.11 drives IIRC. So you would not want every single one of your drives to be such a model.

I have a bunch of assorted 1TB drives for my backups. they are mostly retired drives. Some even have errors on them, I just don't rely on them as much as the better drives. The flaky drives are to backup data that is not as important like movies and stuff. It's better to have a backup on a flaky drive than not at all. I'm probably due to replace all these drives at one point though.

 

[loccothan]

Pick some Green HDD and take min 3Tb

 

[Unoid]

Synology DS 212J (or 213) and two WD RED 2tb in Raid 1.

It's my setup for hard storage. rest is all ssd

 

[nightspydk]

It's preferences but wd is not a good choice atm.

Green drive obviosly I like seagate. Preferences.

It's not that long ago seagate lost a lot of respect due to a bad batch. It happens with everybody. So research the bath FTW.

 

[Zap]

External USB 3.0 HDD. They can end up cheaper than internal models. Just use a credit card that extends warranty, and call it a day.

 

[aarontpx]

I like WD, green drives are fine.