One piece of advice: stay away from 3 TB drives.
The Seagate Desktop HDD.15 has had the best price, and we have a LOT of them.
Over 12 thousand of them.
The failure rate is a nice low 2.6% per year.
Low price and reliability is good for business.
We have over 12 thousand of these drives.
The Western Digital Red 3 TB drives annual failure rate of 7.6% is a bit high but acceptable.
The Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3 TB drives are another story.
We’ll cover how we handled their failure rates in a future blog post.
See the blog post below for the list of drives and their failure rates.
What is the Best Hard Drive?| Backblaze
