Best 10TB Sata Hard Drive?

[ainsleymsclark]

Hi all,

Do you have any opinions on what's the most reliable and fastest 10tb sata hard drive? There's only a select few which makes it harder to pick.
I plan to buy two (when I can afford it) for a backup.
Also how much storage will likely show up in the machine?

Thanks in advance.

 

[SkyNetRising]

For backups - either WD red or WD purple. WD purple has 7200rpm models, WD red all are 5400rpm.

Amount of of available storage depends on, how you configure your drives (JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1).
User accessible capacity of 10TB drive is ~9313GB.

 

[ainsleymsclark]

Thanks for your reply. Sorry I wasn't clear on the back up situation. I want all media and files on one disk and a clone of that disk on the other.
I was also looking at the HGST Ultrastar he10? Are they any good?

 

[SkyNetRising]

HGST he drives were rather expensive. It seems they have come down in price.
Yes - that's good alternative.

 

[dshort01]

Hi all,

Do you have any opinions on what's the most reliable and fastest 10tb sata hard drive? There's only a select few which makes it harder to pick.
I plan to buy two (when I can afford it) for a backup.
Also how much storage will likely show up in the machine?

Thanks in advance.

 

[dshort01]

What I did as for my solution was by a NAS device and then stuck 5 2 terabyte drives. The advantage of this is when you use Raid 5 (which gives you redundancy in a case drive fails and is hot swapable) but it also gives your Striping which improves performance. What are you going to do is your 10 terabyte drive dies.... you will have lost your complete backup. I think in in total, including the hard drives (which are designed for raid, make sure you use only what is recommended). Cost around $860.00 But I love it, the speed is great on my network typically 112/MBPS not Mbps. Also to replace a single 2 Gig NAS drive if a failure occurs is much cheaper. In addition, you lose not data because as soon as you hotswap the bad drive it starts rebuilding all of your data from the remaining drives. I simply love. There are other great features as well, for example I can now stream movies to my TV, etc. That is my preference for a backup. More expensive but so much more reliable. I am so glad I invested in this.