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hi
i will never buy a big tb hard drive
i lost everything a week ago, i need to start all over.
some of my older hard drive where going out on me and making clicking sounds and when out i made the jump to a bigger TB hard drive
and on black friday i saw one a 20 tb and got it the last one and had everything moved over
and then one morning the new tb died on me ,what hard drives are good i have been buying the portable ones for years
the small ones the 2 and 4 and 8 tb , i have seen the ones that go into black cases
does any one have them and i know that they are high in price,
thank you for your timeThat sucks dude. I don't know anything about reliability. I've had hhds last for years and SSD's fail after months. It's seems very random.
I'd recommend getting back ups. I copy everything indentically on two drives. Just in case I lose everything.
Read this....
https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive-test-data
It's usually midsize Western Digital drives that take the crown for reliability but check their report. I have two hard drive caddies (NexStar3) with drives in them and keep them backed up. I lost a pile of stuff years ago and won't make that mistake again.
The IT folks where I work tell me that 'Sabrent' hard drive caddies are the most reliable for multiple drives.
Those small portable drives aren't quite as reliable.
You might be able to get the stuff off of the drive with software. When I lost a large NAS a few years ago I tried a bunch of recovery programs (hacked versions from https://filecr.com/us-en/ ) and finally found one that got everything off the drives. It took several days but it worked.Try Data Rescue 6 by Prosoft Engineering (Mac and Win). A deep search (sorting through every byte) will certainly take days, and it will recover most everything. You can do a more surface level search in minutes and rescue lots of stuff. It depends on the damage to the file structure. Costs $79. Better than the cost of losing everything permanently. Earlier versions have saved my bacon several times. I'm literally currently sifting through a 4TB drive I did a deep 60 hour search of that I worried was dead to me from years ago. I've rescued lots of stuff I thought was gone forever.
And FYI, the drive I'm searching wasn't willing to mount and Data Rescue was still able to search it. So...
@3demon, I see that your program is available on filecr.com
In my case I needed to mount the four drives from the NAS as individual drives so that the software could rebuild the NAS array (Raid 5 I think). After recovery, I formatted the drives as regular old NTFS and now have them in a four bay caddy. No more Raid shit for me! In my case the consumer grade NAS unit went bad.Surprisingly the best help I got was from the company that made the ICs in Korea.I'd love to invest in the unkillable grand-daddy of archives, the tape drive, but even used ones are pricey.
Never put your data in one basket and stay away from modern Seagate drives. Older Seagate drives are good but WD enterprise are king (Black and Yellow label). Even the newer WD drives have had issues in places but at least WD honor their warranty, from experience their support is second to non.
That would suck. Hopefully you can something back with a warranty (if there is one)
I've been thinking about getting 10TB external some point next year. Never had an issues with WD over the decade plus I have been using them. Glad I have backup of many of the files and other stuff.
hi
yep thats the hard drives that have been giving out on me Seagate drives
i will stay away from them
thank you !Hello, These are very interesting advices, thank you all. As the old adage says, there are two kind of people; the ones who have lost data and the ones who will lose them in the future. I was considering buying a 16 TB hard drive but ended buying 2x8 TB for this reason. I have a mix of Seagate and WD drives and, so far, no isues with any of them (fingers crossed). I do my backups manually with FreeFileSync, which I love.
@supreme-leech, please be extra careful with any downloaded file that is password protected, specially if it is an untraceable one like '123'. I'm going to download that file too, but I'm checking it with every virus and malware tool I can find.Best regards,
@keab, You're preaching to the converted here. I'm paranoid about EVERYTHING I grab online. I use that online scanner, Virus Total, to check everything. I also have AVG free but it's more of a PIA than any real help, although it does block some serious pop-up/under/sideways because it's hysterically paranoid.
Glad to hear it, just checking ;-). I'm a bit like that too. I'm paranoid to the point that I'm starting to think VirusTotal started some time ago flagging certain keygens and other files as malicious following some vendors' instructions. Of course, I can't prove it, so I can never be 100% sure about any cracked software, just try to minimize risks as much as I can. That's pirate life, I suppose...
Best regards,
@keab, I know that some AVs are flagging perfectly innocent keygens and serial number files as viruses. It's obvious that the software companies are pressuring them.
I've lost four hard drives in the past year. The largest one was 18TB. I have a backup hard drive for each of them. I now monitor the status of my SSDs and HDDs with CrystalDiskInfo (a free tool). The expected lifespan of a hard drive is between 3 and 5 years. I have hard drives that are 17 years old and still working, but I only use them for storage.
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