Question How is reliability of mechanical hard disks these days?

[modeonoff]

Hello, 20-30 years ago, hard drives failed suddenly for no reason. Usually I heard strange clicking sound and sooner or later, they suddenly failed to function. The past few years I just use SSD. How is the reliability of hard drives such as the Seagate One Touch Portable External Hard Drive? Do they fail easily and suddenly?

 

[WrongRookie]

I'm not saying they should be variants of Samsung.

My point is that if you want data to be backup up which you should, you want the data to be on drives that don't have high fail rates and you want to store them on drives that last for a long time before its time to replace them.

With Samsung SSD, you're chances of losing files is very low. Doesn't change the fact that you still need to backup on other drives but its just a good idea is to backup on drives that are just reliable. Doesn't matter whether its Samsung or not.

 

[USAFRet]

I'm not saying they should be variants of Samsung.

My point is that if you want data to be backup up which you should, you want the data to be on drives that don't have high fail rates and you want to store them on drives that last for a long time before its time to replace them.

With Samsung SSD, you're chances of losing files is very low. Doesn't change the fact that you still need to backup on other drives but its just a good idea is to backup on drives that are just reliable. Doesn't matter whether its Samsung or not.

My chances of losing files is near 0%. Across all my drives and types.
I say 'near 0%', because there is always the possibility of an asteroid strike.

What do YOU use for backups, with what procedure?

What is your backup situation at home?

What is your backup situation at home? And if you don't do that, why not? Every single day, I read multiple threads here of "How do I get my stuff back?" or "That drive had 5 years of photos of my kids!!" Be it a dead drive, dropped phone, virus, accidental deletion, formatting the wrong...

forums.tomshardware.com

 

[kanewolf]

I'm not saying they should be variants of Samsung.

My point is that if you want data to be backup up which you should, you want the data to be on drives that don't have high fail rates and you want to store them on drives that last for a long time before its time to replace them.

With Samsung SSD, you're chances of losing files is very low. Doesn't change the fact that you still need to backup on other drives but its just a good idea is to backup on drives that are just reliable. Doesn't matter whether its Samsung or not.

You also have to remember that an off-site backup is necessary to protect against fire, flood and theft. That may be a cloud backup or a physical backup kept at another location.
Data loss has MANY causes, only one of which is disk failure.

 

[WrongRookie]

What do YOU use for backups, with what procedure?

Right now I have one external drive to backup my video files and one internal hard drive that does the same. Every video I record goes with external first and then internal second.

I'm planning to use a server which my brother installed as an additional third backup.

 

[USAFRet]

Right now I have one external drive to backup my video files and one internal hard drive that does the same. Every video I record goes with external first and then internal second.

I'm planning to use a server which my brother installed as an additional third backup.

Kudos to you. Far more proactive than most people.

 

[WrongRookie]

Kudos to you. Far more proactive than most people.

Yeah thanks...although I'm still not very confident that I should use HDDs instead of SDDs for this. That Seagate drive failure costed me some of my works.

Who knows how long these WD drives I have for internal and external will last...

 

[USAFRet]

Yeah thanks...although I'm still not very confident that I should use HDDs instead of SDDs for this. That Seagate drive failure costed me some of my works.

Who knows how long these WD drives I have for internal and external will last...

That is why you have multiple devices and device types.
Even the magical Samsung SSDs can and do fail.
Maybe not as much as others, but by no means 0%.

 

[Pextaxmx]

just one thing to think about... if a HDD fails and the data is important, you have better chance of recovering data through recovery service. I heard SSDs can be tricky to recover data. Even one automatic TRIM basically make recovery nearly impossible.

 

[USAFRet]

just one thing to think about... if a HDD fails and the data is important, you have better chance of recovering data through recovery service. I heard SSDs can be tricky to recover data. Even one automatic TRIM basically make recovery nearly impossible.

Very true.
But if you're at the point of needing to employ a data recovery service, you've already failed.