100% reliable so far, I’ve bought about 10 of them I think over the past 8 years or so. Some are in RAID 1 arrays, and some just on their own for backups and such.
The main thing is buy from a local shop or online place like serverpartdeals.com and not Amazon or other online marketplaces.
All my stuff is backed up several ways every night (which should be done no matter what drives are used) so it’s not that big of a deal if they failed suddenly.
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100% reliable so far, I’ve bought about 10 of them I think over the past 8 years or so. Some are in RAID 1 arrays, and some just on their own for backups and such.
The main thing is buy from a local shop or online place like serverpartdeals.com and not Amazon or other online marketplaces.
All my stuff is backed up several ways every night (which should be done no matter what drives are used) so it’s not that big of a deal if they failed suddenly.