Anyone got any recommendations or warnings about specific hdd / ssd / storage brands or models at the moment? Thinking about buying another drive instead of being smart and cleaning up my files. I’ve been pretty happy with Samsung but I’ve heard they had a clunker of a drive with high failure rates lately. HDD, SSD and I think I have an extra spare M2 nvme slot on my motherboard, so all recommendations are welcome. Price isn’t a huge concern, but I don’t feel the need to drop a thousand dollars on a single 22TB drive, anything 5TB and above will do fine for now.
Don’t squeeze them into your eyes. Don’t rub them on your skin and go to the sun. Don’t squeeze them on open wounds.
I think this is enough warnings about lemons for now.
As for storage advice, check Backblaze’s reports on drive failures!
https://backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2024/
3 of my 4 SSDs are Samsung, the 850 EVO SATA, the 960 pro pcie 3 and the 980 pcie 4. No complaints at all.
For 2.5" SSD I’d suggest a Samsung Evo or crucial mx500. These will top out at like 4TB afaik.
For 3.5" spinner I’d suggest an enterprise class HDD. Specifically WD Gold or HGST. Look up the most recent backblaze drive failure report for some models known to last a while.
