Hi there, On Tue, 19 Oct 2021, Kenneth Porter wrote:
My Western Digital MyPassport 4TB external drive has filled up so it's time to buy something bigger. I'm thinking an 8 or 10, possibly a Western Digital, as I've had fairly good experience with them over the years. Any suggestions on which to look at? ...
Like Mr. Mikesell I feel that there's less than there used to be to choose between manufacturers thesedays. A while ago I used to go for WD rather than Seagate at any price because I had very bad experience indeed of Seagate Barracuda drives, then WD seemed to go downhill on reliability so for some years I went with HGST. Then WD bought HGST. For Linux box, you probably won't want something which parks the heads if there's no activity for eight seconds. Such things have happened. Another word of caution, there's quite a bit of marketing speak, and, dare I say it, even misrepresentation around drive descriptions and specifications. See for example https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/western-digital-gets-sued-for-sneaking-smr-disks-into-its-nas-channel/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/western-digital-adds-red-plus-branding-for-non-smr-hard-drives/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/western-digital-is-trying-to-redefine-the-word-rpm/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/silent-changes-to-western-digitals-budget-ssd-may-lower-speeds-by-up-to-50/ These articles all happen to mention WD, but they by no means invented the concept of 'caveat emptor'. Finally, I personally would avoid anything filled with helium - but that's because I happen to know how difficult it is to keep helium in *any* container (and even *out* of some containers). This isn't from personal experience of helium-filled drives, of which I have none, but if a drive relies on its gas filling for its operation I don't like to think what might happen when the gas escapes. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
