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Most reliable consumer-grade HDD?

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I'm running out of storage space and I'm so cash tight right now to the point where I cannot afford 2x HDDs for RAID 1 at the moment. I'll have to settle for 1 HDD for the time being and hope that the HDD is reliable enough not to fail and lose my data. Which is the most reliable consumer-grade HDD right now?

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Most reliable? Completely up for debate and no conclusive answer.

You want a reliable and good performing hdd for cheap? Seagate barracuda.

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WD vs Seagate debate inbound.

 

both manufacturers have NAS drives, these are designed to run 24 hours and to be reliable.

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If you'll be putting two HDDs in RAID eventually then go for WD Red drives.  If you aren't then WD Green drives are good, so are Seagate Barracudas.

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I just let go of my old Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB which lasted me 6 years. Still going strong and is in my mums computer now. It was also quite quiet compared to the Barracuda I have right now if that's an issue. 

Wit is educated insolence.

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