2.5" HDD for PC

[roastedkitten]

It is ok to use 2.5" HDD in PC for backup drive ?, what's there significance difference with 3.5" HDD (except speed and capacity) ?

[zeusthemoose]

Perfectly fine to use a 2.5” drive

[The_russian]

5 minutes ago, roastedkitten said:

what's there significance difference with 3.5" HDD (except speed and capacity) ?

Those are the significant differences. They are fine to use in PCs, I'm using one in one of my computers right now. 

[roastedkitten]

1 minute ago, The_russian said:

Those are the significant differences. They are fine to use in PCs, I'm using one in one of my computers right now. 

I use 4 2.5" 1TB drives in my PC for backup drive (3 WD Blue, 1 Seagate)

[The_russian]

2 minutes ago, roastedkitten said:

I use 4 2.5" 1TB drives in my PC for backup drive (3 WD Blue, 1 Seagate)

Yep, perfectly fine to use 

[roastedkitten]

4 minutes ago, The_russian said:

Yep, perfectly fine to use 

Yes, but what make me confuse is that 3.5" drive dead after electrical instability (and only 2 years old), but my 2.5" drive is very fine and not broken (with one drive is almost 4 years old)

[The_russian]

4 minutes ago, roastedkitten said:

Yes, but what make me confuse is that 3.5" drive dead after electrical instability (and only 2 years old), but my 2.5" drive is very fine and not broken (with one drive is almost 4 years old)

It's up to chance basically, you could have a hard drive last 10 years without any problems or it could die the same day you buy it, that's why you should always back up your data (which I see you are already doing). 

[roastedkitten]

4 minutes ago, The_russian said:

It's up to chance basically, you could have a hard drive last 10 years without any problems or it could die the same day you buy it, that's why you should always back up your data (which I see you are already doing). 

Yes, because my samsung 860 evo ssd drive suddenly fail, all my data is gone, and that happened 4 times in that samsung 860 evo drive, but magically i use that drive for almost 2 years till now without any problem, and i still don't know that make my samsung 860 evo drive fail before ??? (1 times fail in my laptop, 3 times fail in my PC, and all data is not accessible, i call IT security specialist and that not found any malware), and that SMART in samsung 860 evo is also show that drive is very fine

[roastedkitten]

Just now, roastedkitten said:

Yes, because my samsung 860 evo ssd drive suddenly fail, all my data is gone, and that happened 4 times in that samsung 860 evo drive, but magically i use that drive for almost 2 years till now without any problem, and i still don't know that make my samsung 860 evo drive fail before ??? (1 times fail in my laptop, 3 times fail in my PC, and all data is not accessible, i call IT security specialist and that not found any malware), and that SMART in samsung 860 evo is also show that drive is very fine

It is why i make backup in 4 hdd in my PC, and another backup server with RAID 10, also in yandex.disk , because i don't want loss my data again