know a reliable brand of external hard drive?

[videoed]

hello all,

i've got some storage issues that need addressing.

looking to purchase about 20 TB of storage over the next few months.

interested in minimum of 2 TB, and all in an external style format.

or maybe at this point i should be thinking something bigger...

i'm simply archiving video and would like redundancy if possible

any tips?

thanks!

ed

 

[davidinva]

I've only used Western Digital and have been happy so far. I have a 500GB portable that travels with me and a 1.5 TB that stays on my desk. With your needs, some sort of RAID setup?

 

[itickings]

You are more or less guaranteed to get recommendations for any existing brand as well as horror stories about the same brands. Most drives will work for a long time, but eventually all drives fail.

That said, I'm happy with my Western Digital Desktop external drives, a mix of 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0TB ones. They have however fairly recently been demoted to carry backups only, as I've migrated to a storage server based on unRAID to provide some level of redundancy.