Confused About HDD Storage Drives

[bigtank29]

Ok Folks I’m Like Confused Here; Here Deal I Have Roughly 2tb’s Of Movies And Music Scattered On Hard Drives And Another 1.5tb Worth Of Movies On Data Disks
Now My Thing Is I Need To Centeralize Everything Basically Building A Media Center HTPC.. Now Last Nite Spent Great Deal Of Time On Raid Setup I’m Guessing I Be Using Riad 1… Now HDD I See A lot People Say WD Red Are Best For NAS / Media Server’s.. Then People Say Greens Are Best…But Then I Look At WD Blacks The Have 5 Year warranty.. I’m Starting To panic A little Bit Because…No1# Don’t Want To Lose My Media….No2# I Have Money To Be Replacing HDD Everytime I Turn Round .. What is Lifespan oF These Hard Drives, Currently I Have Pc I Built 6yr Ago and it Still Have Original HDD Now I Have Done Hard Disk Recovery on It A Number Of Times And Its Still Fine & It Didn’t Cost Near Az Much Az Reds & Green & Black.. So Can Anyone Offer Any Type Insight Or Suggestion As To Which I Need To Buy

WD Green WD10EZRX 1TB
IntelliPower SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
2 year limited warranty

WD Red NAS Hard Drive WD10EFRX 1TB
IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
3 year limited warranty

WD Black Series - WD1003FZEX 1TB
7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
5-year limited warranty

 

[Ubrales]

Here is some info: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/internal/desktop/

Based on this I suggest Red for RAID 1 - In addition to this you need an external backup drive. RAID is not a substitute for backup.

 

[ss202sl]

No1# Don’t Want To Lose My Media.

What are you doing for backup? Raid is not a backup.

 

[bigtank29]

This Is Why Im Confused ... I Have Roughly 1.500 movies and heap more in Music Mp3's , Tons of photos and XBMC now people telling me I need to have all this backup az so not to loose anything , im seeing people talk about how drives fail and types of drives and nas and raid everything has got me confused its like I see people say to use western digital red hard drives and I see they only have 3 year warranty so why pick a 3yr warranty over and 5yr warranty this I don't understand

 

[ss202sl]

Reds are designed for high utilization of a raid system used for servers. The Greens are a low power drive and not suitable for raid. The blacks will work just fine for your system in a raid configuration.

http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/Flyer/ENG/2278-771046.pdf

The backups are still needed because there are other things(besides HDD failure) that put your data at risk. A fire(flood, theft) can take out your whole system. Having an off-site backup means that your data can be easily recovered.