Longest lasting HDD

[njmyers3]

I am looking for a hard drive that will last for a long time without failing. I know hard drives always fail at some point but I want it to last as long as possible. I am looking for a 2TB drive from western digital. My friend recommended the Red Pro, but that is used for NAS usually. Can I use one of those in a computer? Will that last for a long time compared to blue, black, and red?

I will use my system for gaming and video editing, however, I have an SSD for things that need faster access. What type of WD HDD should I get?

[Dzzope]

Get 2 of the cheapest.. ALL hardware will fail (especially HDD's) it's just a matter of when and that is impossible to tell

[Enderman]

well the longest lasting is the WD RE drives obviously

they also cost a ton of money

[Lolzious]

Well, you can never tell, but the WD Green probably has a lower chance of failing, since it's only 5400RPM, and doesn't spin all the time.

[Jarsky]

Yes you can use it in a desktop it will be just fine.

The Green's are great for storage, but Red's have a lot of extra features - the main one for your purpose would be the active balancing. The Pro would be a waste of $$$ though when you aren't building an array.

 

You might also be interested in the Seagate Enterprise NAS & HGST Deskstar drives - they also have great reliability.

 

If you're putting critical info on it you cant lose though, then you have to have a backup solution.

Wether you buy 2 drives, or backup everything that is critical to cloud storage like Dropbox, Amazon Cloud or Google Drive or something.

[Speaker1264]

If you are concerned about failure it might be cheaper, and also more reliable to run 2 hard drives in raid 1.  Two of these costs only $150.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd20ezrx

 

Also this seagate drive is faster, cheaper, and a lot more popular.

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st2000dm001

 

And if price is the biggest concern get two of these

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/hitachi-internal-hard-drive-0f10311

[Captain_WD]

I am looking for a hard drive that will last for a long time without failing. I know hard drives always fail at some point but I want it to last as long as possible. I am looking for a 2TB drive from western digital. My friend recommended the Red Pro, but that is used for NAS usually. Can I use one of those in a computer? Will that last for a long time compared to blue, black, and red?

I will use my system for gaming and video editing, however, I have an SSD for things that need faster access. What type of WD HDD should I get?

 

Hey njmyers3,

 

As the guys explained, HDDs are mechanical units and as such failures do happen for one reason or another. If you are looking for security, I would look for a drive with longer warranty and possibly provide redundancy and backup to it. 

WD Black is a good drive with a long 5-year warranty that works great: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=HBjj2L

You could go for WD Red or WD Red Pro (you can use these in regular setups) and put them in in RAID1 to make sure you won't lose data if a drive failure occurs. 

 

I would strongly recommend having a backup of all your important data on the drive/drives as RAID only provides redundancy and is no backup. 

 

Captain_WD.