Question:Closed 7 years ago. ?
I’m looking to buy a 1TB or 2TB hard drive (actually 2 of them) for a Home NAS. Reading several comments online about failing drives within a year after purchase, I’m obviously trying to avoid this.
I’d like these drives to last at least 5 years. I don’t care as much for speed as for reliability.
How can I make sure that I pick a reliable hard drive?
For what it’s worth, some extra details:
- these hard drives will be used in a Synology 212j
- will be used mostly for family photo backups, but also documents and media streaming
These disks will probably be set up in RAID1 (depends on the answers here), and the most important files will have offsite backup.
Answer: StorageReview.com has a reliability survey ?that it’s user submit their data to. It can be skewed because users who have problems are probably more likely to submit results but it’s one of the few surveys that I know. They have good overall reviews of drives.
But at the end of the day expect failures and backup data.