Most Reliable Hard Drive (Office/Server Use)

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I need a hard drive which has the highest reliability for office and not concerned about pricing and performance and will run on a 24/7 basis. (500Gb- 2Tb)

Currently deciding on choosing between HGST Ultrastar, WD Red and Red Pro, Or even Samsung SSD due to 10 yr warranty.

Daily backups are done but if the system was to fail reinstalling everything (+complicated programs) takes up to 3days.

Thanks

Note: Previously Used WD Blue, the drive failed after a 9months, the other computers are still running fine with it.
 
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You don't install Windows on the new drive. You install the new drive, boot into your drive imaging tool and restore the image from USB/DVD/BD/LAN to the new drive. Once complete, remove your imaging tool boot media, reboot the PC and you should be right back where you were when you finished installing software when you made the image. This also means you have to re-install updates that have been...
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Well out of your choices, the SSD would be the most reliable, and not to mention the quickest. You could also look into PCIe and NVMes SSDs to get even faster performance. Hard drives will be slower, but a lot more cheaper.

So it comes down to warranty, reliable, speed, and space. How would you prioritize these?
 
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Well in that case, The Red Pros are a bit more reliable and testing thoroughly, but that 850 Pro warranty is a killer.

So if price truly isn't a concern, get the 850 Pro series with their 10 year warranty. If it's a bit too much, get the Red Pro as it is reliable, built for NAS and still has a 5 year warranty.
 
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I agree but if the drive were to fail, will I be able to restore the image on a fresh windows install with a new drive
 
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You don't install Windows on the new drive. You install the new drive, boot into your drive imaging tool and restore the image from USB/DVD/BD/LAN to the new drive. Once complete, remove your imaging tool boot media, reboot the PC and you should be right back where you were when you finished installing software when you made the image. This also means you have to re-install updates that have been applied since the image was made and you may want to re-image the drive after that.
 
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It's basically like re-installing Windows, but without the hassle of setting it up. In the Army, we had many laptops come through, and we had to re-image a lot of them at once. It takes a while, but it really is quicker than installing Windows because it's already set up. So all we have to do is lock down the Admin account, and have users login with their creds.
 
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You don't install the OS after a drive crash, you apply whatever image you made before the drive replacement.
An Image is basically a snapshot of the whole drive. OS, applications, whatever is on it at that moment.

A typical drive might take 20-30 minutes to reconstitute from an image.

I use Macrium Reflect, to image all of my systems as needed.
Either every night, once a week, whatever. Depending on its particular use case.


As far as drive reliability? Except for one old cheesy laptop, all my current house systems are SSD only. Generally running 24/7. The eldest SSD (out of 8) is a ~5 year old Kingston 120GB. Still reports 99% life left.
 
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