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I'm not a particular brand fanboy, for example my current primary HDD is Toshiba, was WD Blue (Started throwing errors), prior to that Seagate (also errors).
But the two old WD Green WD10EACS... still going strong even though their used as torrent drives! I'm actually very impressed considering so many people will tell you they die.
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Very impressed with these drives!
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I've a few comments to make about mechanical hard drives and avoiding things which would be detrimental:
Despite smart stats a drive can break at any time, so it is always worth holding your important data on more than one device. (As a Linux user, I like to use rsync to synchronise the data files stored across two separate drives. This is a very rapid way of maintaining a backup of a file-system, when you just shift the daily changes between the current and the sync'ed drive.)
Mechanical drives are subject to damage if they are moved / hit / banged around while running. I have lost data on two mechanical drives from knocking them over while they were running (and these knocks weren't especially harsh ones, quite gentle in fact).
Solid State Drives aren't affected by (minor) knocks and hits, but you could run into issues with them if you keep running them close to full of data. Let's say you have a SSD which is 500GB and it only has 1GB of free space: All the subsequent file writes and rewrites will concentrate on that 1 GB portion of the drive, degrading it much quicker because they aren't able to do their smart wear-levelling with such a small amount of free space.
It is good to avoid running mechanical hard drives at high temperature. They are more prone to degrading if running hot. A case with adequate cooling fans is one solution to this. I've had mechanical drives break from running too hot.
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My first WD was a 40GB HDD that came with a Dell that failed, but only after 7 years of hard use. I haven't had a Seagate fail yet, knock on wood. I couldn't find a Seagate M.2 for less than $70 or I would have bought one.
We will see how the new drive does. I also chose this one because it has SLC NAND Flash which is supposedly the most reliable form of flash memory. Reliability is more important to me than speed.
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Also, BorgBackup for the win.
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You mean the tables in OP's post, or in general? I think the standard tool is 'smartmontools' that comes in the base repos of all distros. There's quite a bit of info here: https://www.smartmontools.org/
Those drives are still going btw.
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ive always stayed away from Greens because of the headparking issues and its just slow.
preferring to pickup whatever Black was the fastest at the time.
but i opted to invest in 2tbReds the last time i bought any HDD.
PSA reminder to check your smart status occasionally..
and for $80-100 keep a physical HDD backup of your most valuable data...
ALSO, SSD have a cell voltage life of ~1year to 18months.
meaning... offline storage for over that length results in cell degradation and data loss
just power on the SSD once a year to keep voltage charged up!
I have a bunch of WD Reds that have been going on forever in a server and I’m more than happy with them, just the kind of storage you want in a 24/7 solution.
I’m not fond of Seagate drives because all the ones I’ve had were very noisy. No complaints about reliability though.
Sadly, the time has come to retire those drives
Just performed a full shred with 6 passes on the oldest of the two and it's now powered off never to be in this computer again
It feels like a child is moving out
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The other drive is still shredding.. albeit much slower than the one above, which is strange.
(I needed more storage.. these are old SATA 2.5 1TB drives)