3.5" SATA hard-drive suggestion?

[Fallinangel]

Hi everybody,

I'm looking for suggestions for a 3.5" mechanical hard-drive (SATA) of 12 to 16TB capacity.
I don't need an enclosure, just the drive itself!

I'm going to use it two times a week to back up my RAID array, and for nothing else.
The rest of the time, it will be off.

It should be fast within the limits of mechanical drives and USB 3.0 transfer speeds, and last me a couple of years at least.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[Basic75]

Even with your different use case I'd take a look at https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2022/.

 

[Fallinangel]

Even with your different use case I'd take a look at https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2022/.

I'll take a look. But my use case is probably different.

 

[Fishrrman]

Why the "no"?
Backblaze presents a good overview of various drives with failure rates.
It's one of the few places where one can review real-life data on such things.

After a quick look there, it looks like Toshiba and (surprise!) WD have the best records...

 

[rpmurray]

I can recommend the WD Gold Enterprise Class SATA drives. I started getting these when they changed the HGST branding to WD. Haven't had any problems with them (other than one drive with 4 bad sectors that a SoftRAID certify found).

 

[You’re not me]

Seagate Exos

 

[julianps]

Bombich user guide for Carbon Copy Cloner (pp64 of the PDF version) has a guide to HDD/SSD. The article contains secondary links that may help you (they did me), but the cast-iron rules seems to be "Avoid disks that use Shingled Magnetic Recording".

 

[jav6454]

I would recommend WD Gold as well. You can easily find them on NewEgg.

 

[flaubert]

Seagate Exos. Avoid the IronWolf series.