what is most reliable high capacity hdd for desktop

[steven_116]

i am looking 2 to 4 hdd in capacity 8t - 12t to storage all my family stuff.

i have 6 kids+plus me and my wife who all love take lots videos and watch movies in 4k.

so what is most reliable hdd for this work?also i am going to use them in raid 0 and computer would be used to acess all this data.

 

[kanewolf]

A single 8TB drive will be more reliable than any RAID 0. Even RAID 1 should have an automatic backup routine. See this article on RAID and backups -- https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-features/31745-data-recovery-tales-raid-is-not-backup

 

[RealBeast]

First, don't use RAID 0 -- one drive dies and everything is gone. Also better not to use motherboard bios RAID as it is pretty unreliable. Use Microsoft Storage Spaces in a parity mode.

All of the current major manufacturer drives are pretty good, HGST, Seagate, and WD.

Plan for future needs, so if you want 15TB of usable space you would need 3 8TB drives (the parity takes up one drive worth the space spread amount them all so you can lose a drive and still have your data). If you want 12TB, you can go with 6TB drives. I like the HGST He8 8TB and they run around $250 each, so you should also consider your budget for this. The Iron Wolf drives now go up to 14TB for a single drive.