Long term storage, what’s your solution?

[Chris Borjis]

[Dustin Parsons] ” I think I’ll end up getting the Seagate drives”

Hey Dustin, be cautious with Seagate. They make the most unreliable drives of
any mfg. I’ve had several system drives go bad and lost data from them from crashing.

Backblaze even did MTF tests and found them to be the worst for reliable operation.

They found Hitachi to be the least prone to failure long term.

[Dustin Parsons]

Hmmmm… well, I guess that’s how they’re able to sell a 5TB external drive for $40 cheaper than an internal drive from any other company. I just bought one of the Seagate drives to back up my Pegasus R6 which is setup as a RAID 5 so even if the Seagate dies on me in a few years so I should be okay since I have redundancy built into the R6. However, I don’t know if I’ll be buying 2 more of those now to archive my old projects. Thanks for the heads up

[Bryce Hoover]

A word of caution on the RAID 1 solution.
I had a RAID 1 NewerTech Gardian MAXimus drive that had the fan go bad.
I ordered a new case for the drives and was told to backup the drives BEFORE installing them in the new case. That the chip in the new case wouldn’t read the old drives and I’d have to reformat the drives before using them in the new case. I’m so glad he told me that. It would have been a HUGE disaster had he not informed me of this little detail. Maybe what I just described is only a problem with that particular enclosure… I wanted to share it just in case it’s not.

-bh