Backup drive in "parents" machine

[pcm81]

Building new pc for parents. System drive will be 512GB SSD, for backup drive i am thinking WD RED, although wonder if WD purple would be sufficient? What do you think? This will be a 2-drive windows10 PC.

 

[Elixer]

Well, the purple isn't made for that, is WD's line.
It has firmware that is tweaked for video performance...
Could you? Sure.
Should you? That is your call.

 

[pcm81]

Well, the purple isn't made for that, is WD's line.
It has firmware that is tweaked for video performance...
Could you? Sure.
Should you? That is your call.

I figured that the "windows back up" drive usage pattern will be more similar to cctv usage than a NAS RAID, which is why i thought purple... May be i am wrong.

 

[MustISO]

For simple backups any drive could be used. I'd go with something like WD blue or similar drive. If they have data that is critically important to them they should also consider some type of off-site backup system or cloud based backup.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

For simple backups any drive could be used. I'd go with something like WD blue or similar drive. If they have data that is critically important to them they should also consider some type of off-site backup system or cloud based backup.

Ditto. The Western Digital Blue drive, of your preferred size.

Back in the day, five years back or earlier, I had more spend-thrifty habits leaning toward some standard of "quality" or "reliability." And we weren't as concerned about household power consumption. So I ALWAYS purchased WD "Black" drives.

The Blues aren't "Black," but I have several of them allocated or deployed in various uses. Never had one fail yet. Never had any problem with them.

They may not be the top performer, but that, too, becomes superfluous with certain strategies and software for caching the HDD to either SSD or RAM.

 

[Captain_WD]

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Hey there pcm81 🙂

As the guys perfectly explained, you can use pretty much any drive for this purpose. Different WD models have different specifications and are designed for different purposes thus having the various features. In your case you don't need any specific feature so a WD Blue drive should be perfectly fine. Have in mind that having your backup drive attached internally to your system next to the primary data drive doesn't really grant you safety against power outages, shortages, physical damage and other similar cases so fora true backup I would recommend having an external storage device as a backup drive.

Post back if you have any questions 🙂

Captain_WD.