Recommend me a HDD please.

[IAEInferno]

This HDD will be mostly used for storage (movies, music, pictures and some games)

2TB-3TB would be nice but my main concern is reliability, longevity and endurance of the drive(at the very least 4 years before it fails)

 

I can't decide between HGST, Seagate, WD brands since idk which one to pick.

[yannick12]

Toshiba DT01ACA300, 3TB

 

[TempestRX]

Maybe Seagate? Or Western Digital

[TheNextLinus]

What is your budget for the drive?

[IAEInferno]

Just now, TheNextLinus said:

What is your budget for the drive?

Below $120

[Brooksie359]

4 minutes ago, IAEInferno said:

Below $120

choosing between seagate and western digital is like choosing between asus and msi. it really doesn't matter. http://pcpartpicker.com/product/KyCwrH/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st2000dm001 this a very popular 2tb hardrive that is pretty inexpensive. 

[TheNextLinus]

1 hour ago, IAEInferno said:

This HDD will be mostly used for storage (movies, music, pictures and some games)

2TB-3TB would be nice but my main concern is reliability, longevity and endurance of the drive(at the very least 4 years before it fails)

 

I can't decide between HGST, Seagate, WD brands since idk which one to pick.

If reliability is your main concern, you could get two of these drives and run them in a RAID 1 setup.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/pMh9TW/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st2000vm002

 

[IAEInferno]

57 minutes ago, TheNextLinus said:

If reliability is your main concern, you could get two of these drives and run them in a RAID 1 setup.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/pMh9TW/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st2000vm002

 

 

Hi what does Raid set-up do?

[kirstpl]

RAID 0 is when half of the data is copied to one disk and the other half to the other. This means that is faster, however, if one drive fails, you loose all the data.

RAID 1 Copies all of the data from one disk to another, so they are identical. This is much more reliable, as one drive can fail without any data loss, but it keeps the same speed.

[TheNextLinus]

23 minutes ago, CoderPythonX said:

RAID 0 is when half of the data is copied to one disk and the other half to the other. This means that is faster, however, if one drive fails, you loose all the data.

RAID 1 Copies all of the data from one disk to another, so they are identical. This is much more reliable, as one drive can fail without any data loss, but it keeps the same speed.

There is also RAID 5 and 6, but those require special hardware to use and are both quite quick and reliable, and RAID 10, which requires 4 drives, and has got the capacity and read/write speeds of 2 drives.