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Plz recommend long-lived 2TB HDD
My NV+ has been throwing a series of gradually increasing reallocated sector counts for going on two months, so I plan to buy a replacement HDD to have on stand-by for when the other shoe drops. The ...
Backblaze has some good blog posts regarding this.
http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/
Personally I'd stay away from Seagate. I had 2 1TB Barracuda's die within 2 days of each other. Lost 1 disk on a Friday, went out to buy a replacement for it on Saturday, got home and another had died. Go figure.. first one had over 100 reallocated sector counts, the other hand less than 10. Lost everything. A dd-rescue didn't work.
http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/
Personally I'd stay away from Seagate. I had 2 1TB Barracuda's die within 2 days of each other. Lost 1 disk on a Friday, went out to buy a replacement for it on Saturday, got home and another had died. Go figure.. first one had over 100 reallocated sector counts, the other hand less than 10. Lost everything. A dd-rescue didn't work.
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