Buy multiple drives, setup some sort of raid, setup some sort of backup. Then set up a 2nd backup.
Done.
All drives from all manufacturers are going to fail at more or less the same rate (see: backblaze’s stats) and trying to buy a specific thing to avoid the death which is coming for all drives is, mostly, futile: at the absolute best you might see a single specific model to avoid, but that doesn’t mean entire product lines are bad.
I’m using some WD red drives which are pushing 8 years old, and some Seagate exos drives which are pushing 4, and so far no issues on any of the 7 drives.
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Buy multiple drives, setup some sort of raid, setup some sort of backup. Then set up a 2nd backup.
Done.
All drives from all manufacturers are going to fail at more or less the same rate (see: backblaze’s stats) and trying to buy a specific thing to avoid the death which is coming for all drives is, mostly, futile: at the absolute best you might see a single specific model to avoid, but that doesn’t mean entire product lines are bad.
I’m using some WD red drives which are pushing 8 years old, and some Seagate exos drives which are pushing 4, and so far no issues on any of the 7 drives.
I have a couple 7 year-old EFRX WD Reds. Bought them new, before the whole SMR vs CMR issue came about. No issues. Solid drives.
I guess I should just do RAID, unfortunately I don’t have a very good setup for it.