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Most reliable, longest lasting budget Hard drive

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Link19

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I am looking for a budget HDD I can buy for a Smoothwall box I am going to be setting up. I want something brand new. The HDD can be very small. I don't need anything bigger than 10-20GB. I want something extrenely quiet and very reliable and long lasting. I also want something very inexpensive. It should be easy to find something very inexpensive considering the size of the HDD storage I am looking at is extremely low these days.

Any recommednations on what would be good to get? Are the choices at PriceWatch for $20.00 a good buy?
 
Nobody actually makes drives that small anymore (except for some 36GB SCSI models, but those are not cheap). I think the smallest size most manufacturers offer in new drive models is 40GB (and 80GB in some model lines).

If you are concerned about uptime being affected by potential drive failure, use RAID1 with a hot-swap controller. Most 7200RPM ATA drives are not going to differ much (statistically) in terms of reliability. A drive from any manufacturer can last 5-6 years without a problem, or crap out in a few months.

Seagate currently offers the longest warranty on consumer drives, at five years.

Samsung's drives tend to be the quietest among newer models (although for extreme quiet, you want a laptop drive with a converter and an elastic suspension mount).

WD has consumer models that are (supposedly) designed for better reliability at 24/7 continuous operation.
 
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