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cgod  ·  3933 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Okay, Hubski, talk me out of $2k worth of Sinology and WD Reds.

Avoid Seagate is good advice.

There was that whole Backblaze analysis that got a bunch of people worked up on hard drive reliability http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/

If you are willing to pay for reliability Hitachi seems like the way to go. If they fail they do it early in their life span, which seems like a huge bonus to me. Replacing data that is only a few months old is way easier than replacing it a few years down the line.