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4TB drive recommendations
I currently have 2 x ReadyNAS Pro Business edition units each with 6 x 2TB Hitachi drives and they have been rock solid for several years. One of them however started off life with Western Digital 2TB...
They find that 25% of their Seagate purchases failed within three years, but only about 5% of the Hitachi or WDC drives fail over the same time period.
tony359 wrote: Hi,
Check this out
They do not have any WD 4TB but as your experience tells us, Hitachi are great followed by WDC.
Assuming you have backup protection, that suggests to me that it is worth paying a 20% premium to get a more reliable drive. The numbers for Hitachi and WDC are very close, so I don't think I'd pay any premium to get a Hitachi over a WDC.
Keep in mind that these numbers might not accurately reflect reliability of currently shipping drives, and that specific models or production runs with high failure rates can skew the overall picture.
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