Reliable Hard Drive (Personal Use)

[armoosead]

I am looking for a drive that is reliable to slip into my PC. It isnt for backup but storing mass video files for storage. This drive seems really reliable according to tests I have seen. Only its an enterprise drive. If I am just storing files will that matter? I plan on moving files I edit with to an SSD anyways. Will that work?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA5AD5WC8176&cm_re=HHMS5C4040ALE640-_-9SIA5AD5WC8176-_-Product

 

[USAFRet]

Yeah, that drive should work for that workload.

 

[jaguarskx]

HGST have a very good reputation and real world reliability based on read / skimming through several reports over the years of the reliability of hard drives by brand name based on enterprise usage. Meaning running 24/7 in something like a server farm. Based on the reports, a large majority of the hard drives were HGST and they had among the lowest, if the not the lowest, failure rates.

Having said that, I would have to say that I ever since I bought my first Windows PC, I have easily gone through over 30 hard drives for personal use. Only one of them actual failed (a 40GB Matrox HDD; a brand that no longer exists), and a 120GB WD which developed around 10GB of bad sectors, but no actual data was lost.

I generally replace hard drives in my desktops and laptops due to age (and fear that it could lead to failure), or I replaced lower capacity HDDs with larger capacity HDDs. I am planning on purchasing more HDDs within the next year to replace aging / smaller capacity HDDs yet again. Looking at purchasing several 8TB HDDs.

At the moment between 2 laptops, and 2 desktops as well as a few external HDDs, I am currently using 14 HDDs. I plan on replacing every single one of them over the next 3 or 4 years. Though with higher capacity HDDs, I would likely consolidate down to around 10 HDDs.

 

[armoosead]

Same here. Im pretty good about replacing my drives every 3 years. I just want to make sure HGST isnt too much of a noticeable difference. I mean its not like I am going to be editing anything off of it. I just dont want it to freeze if I want to view a video file on it.

HGST have a very good reputation and real world reliability based on read / skimming through several reports over the years of the reliability of hard drives by brand name based on enterprise usage. Meaning running 24/7 in something like a server farm. Based on the reports, a large majority of the hard drives were HGST and they had among the lowest, if the not the lowest, failure rates.

Having said that, I would have to say that I ever since I bought my first Windows PC, I have easily gone through over 30 hard drives for personal use. Only one of them actual failed (a 40GB Matrox HDD; a brand that no longer exists), and a 120GB WD which developed around 10GB of bad sectors, but no actual data was lost.

I generally replace hard drives in my desktops and laptops due to age (and fear that it could lead to failure), or I replaced lower capacity HDDs with larger capacity HDDs. I am planning on purchasing more HDDs within the next year to replace aging / smaller capacity HDDs yet again. Looking at purchasing several 8TB HDDs.

At the moment between 2 laptops, and 2 desktops as well as a few external HDDs, I am currently using 14 HDDs. I plan on replacing every single one of them over the next 3 or 4 years. Though with higher capacity HDDs, I would likely consolidate down to around 10 HDDs.