Had (and probably have it somewhere) a 2TB Toshiba drive for +5 years in my desktop as a games and programs data grave. Never once had an issue.
My current NAS drives are also Toshiba helium filled drives and though loud are okayish under light read operations.
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It probably doesn’t matter at the scale you’ll be operating. But Backblaze has more data than anyone here about reliability.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2024/
Used to run over 40 drives. Backblaze pointed out those Toshiba’s. Man they do not die.
Had (and probably have it somewhere) a 2TB Toshiba drive for +5 years in my desktop as a games and programs data grave. Never once had an issue.
My current NAS drives are also Toshiba helium filled drives and though loud are okayish under light read operations.