4TB-6TB Hard Drive Recommendations?

[itakey]

SO my 2+ year old 3TB drive went dead with no warning. Luckily I had it backed up. Looking for hard drive recommendations. I use the drive for active files and mostly storage. Anyone have a drive they recommend?

I recall some people having good luck with the Western Digital RED drive, but forget if that was just for NAS use, or if it was a particularly less prone drive.

I will be using this drive internally, but don't mind gutting an external if it has a great drive inside. Any recommendations you all may have will be cool.

 

[Elixer]

HGST, then WD, then Toshiba, then seagate.
However, with these big drives, you almost have to get two of them so you can keep backups.

 

[itakey]

I went WD Black, 5 year warranty and I've had great experience in the past. Almost went with a HGST with a 3 year warranty, but the WD dropped to only $35 more and it was a no brainer.

 

[iluvdeal]

I've experienced failures with every brand, with consumer and with enterprise drives. My advise is to do regular backups and to buy drives with a minimum of 3 year warranty, also paying an extra $30 or so for a 5 year warranty drive will be totally worth it when your drive breaks and you get a free replacement versus being left with a worthless doorstop.

 

[itakey]

I've experienced failures with every brand, with consumer and with enterprise drives. My advise is to do regular backups and to buy drives with a minimum of 3 year warranty, also paying an extra $30 or so for a 5 year warranty drive will be totally worth it when your drive breaks and you get a free replacement versus being left with a worthless doorstop.

Good point and I agree a few extra bucks is worthy. Question, how do you feel about turning in a dead drive with all of your valuable data on it? I doubt they do anything with the drives, but imagine if they simply throw them out and their employee's took them and recovered data from them. Seems like a huge security loop in the process. What do you all think of that?