Mass Storage Options

[SludgeMasterFlex]

So I’m shopping for a long term mass storage option. While I’d love to have a NAS, unfortunately that’s not in my budget at the moment, hopefully in the future. For now, I’ve narrowed down two possible options that fit the majority of my needs as far as a stationary and durable home unit that, if needed, could be picked up and traveled with, and are a $10 difference in pricing. There’s some give and take between the two obviously, but I’d like to see what everyone may think/have opinions on, or any other suggestions are happily welcome! Thank you anyone for any and all feedback and insight!

 

SanDisk Professional G-Drive

22TB

HDD

280mb/s R/W

USB 3.2 Gen 2

 

Samsung T5 Evo

8TB

SSD

460mb/s R/W

USB 3.2 Gen 1

[emosun]

the two products you listed are two totally different sizes , what did you actually need

[Blue4130]

1 minute ago, SludgeMasterFlex said:

So I’m shopping for a long term mass storage option. While I’d love to have a NAS, unfortunately that’s not in my budget at the moment, hopefully in the future. For now, I’ve narrowed down two possible options that fit the majority of my needs as far as a stationary and durable home unit that, if needed, could be picked up and traveled with, and are a $10 difference in pricing. There’s some give and take between the two obviously, but I’d like to see what everyone may think/have opinions on, or any other suggestions are happily welcome! Thank you anyone for any and all feedback and insight!

 

SanDisk Professional G-Drive

22TB

HDD

280mb/s R/W

USB 3.2 Gen 2

 

Samsung T5 Evo

8TB

SSD

460mb/s R/W

USB 3.2 Gen 1

Do you need speed or capacity?

[SludgeMasterFlex]

2 minutes ago, emosun said:

the two products you listed are two totally different sizes , what did you actually need

Very fair. This is going to be primarily a stay home “master” back up so to speak, I’ve got two other SSD portables I utilize as needed that I work off of. I do audio engineering and mixing primarily so this will have my studio sessions, that typically are not very massive in size, but also will have a lot of graphic/photo/video/and related editing sessions which can all add up.

The reason I singled those two out were the storage size of the SD seemed very beneficial, but I haven’t used G-Drives before and have read through nothing but mixed reviews really. The Reliability of Samsung is what stuck out to me for that 8TB model just because I do use the T7’s.

[SludgeMasterFlex]

11 minutes ago, Blue4130 said:

Do you need speed or capacity?

The capacity is most definitely more beneficial, my worry is I’ve tried to read up as much as I could on the SD Professional G-Drives and it’s almost like a 50/50 split of reliability which worries me a bit.

[emosun]

2 minutes ago, SludgeMasterFlex said:

Very fair. This is going to be primarily a stay home “master” back up so to speak, I’ve got two other SSD portables I utilize as needed that I work off of. I do audio engineering and mixing primarily so this will have my studio sessions, that typically are not very massive in size, but also will have a lot of graphic/photo/video/and related editing sessions which can all add up.

The reason I singled those two out were the storage size of the SD seemed very beneficial, but I haven’t used G-Drives before and have read through nothing but mixed reviews really. The Reliability of Samsung is what stuck out to me for that 8TB model just because I do use the T7’s.

ok so did you need 22tb or 8tb

[SludgeMasterFlex]

Just now, emosun said:

ok so did you need 22tb or 8tb

The higher capacity is most definitely more beneficial for me, but It’s less of a question of capacity really and more of if anyone has had personal experience/insight on reliability with those or other recommendations they utilize I could look into.

[Blue4130]

Just now, SludgeMasterFlex said:

The higher capacity is most definitely more beneficial for me, but It’s less of a question of capacity really and more of if anyone has had personal experience/insight on reliability with those or other recommendations they utilize I could look into.

If you travel with it, get the ssd without a doubt. Harddrives don't like frequent travel.

[SludgeMasterFlex]

Just now, Blue4130 said:

If you travel with it, get the ssd without a doubt. Harddrives don't like frequent travel.

Very fair. Anything you use yourself or have had experience with as kinda personal home mass storage you’d recommend?

[emosun]

4 minutes ago, SludgeMasterFlex said:

Anything you use yourself or have had experience with as kinda personal home mass storage you’d recommend?

are you traveling with it or is it for home use

[SludgeMasterFlex]

5 minutes ago, emosun said:

are you traveling with it or is it for home use

Primarily home bound for sure. There’s the 5% random chance of needing to take it with me somewhere, but I’d safely say home.

[emosun]

21 minutes ago, SludgeMasterFlex said:

It’s less of a question of capacity really and more of if anyone has had personal experience/insight on reliability with those or other recommendations they utilize I could look into.

well if you care about reliability more than speed or capacity then just buy 3 or 4 cheap drives and mirror the information on them as redundancy always outperforms quality with drives.

Even if the failure rate was 25% a year (which would be insanely high) then that would be a guaranteed 4 years worth of storage. But with a more likely scenario of a normal failure rate it would be quite difficult for either of your choices to outlast a larger number of less expensive drives.

[SludgeMasterFlex]

7 minutes ago, emosun said:

well if you care about reliability more than speed or capacity then just buy 3 or 4 cheap drives and mirror the information on them as redundancy always outperforms quality with drives.

Even if the failure rate was 25% a year (which would be insanely high) then that would be a guaranteed 4 years worth of storage. But with a more likely scenario of a normal failure rate it would be quite difficult for either of your choices to outlast a larger number of less expensive drives.

Makes a good point, I appreciate that insight, thank you for that!