Hi All,

My WD my book hard drive decides to be unreadable and I've had it!

What's the most stable and reliable external hard drive out there for producers?

Ps, I have a back up hard drive but haven't really updated it in 6months so not much of a hurt but still pissed!

Thanks

 

do not buy HITACHI TOURO series .. they're sucks .. i think from my experience right now i am relying on Samsung Evo series and T5
they're really fast and reliable for me

 

thanks, will research

 

Lacie or WD Easystore, the latter is in great favour of storage addicts at https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

 

Im leaning more towards SSD, WD is what's causing me a headache right now. Thanks tho.

 

First was your brocken WD my book an HDD or SSD?
If you lucky it’s only the controller.
Try I without the case. Directly in to your PC

Second any SSD would be a good choice for an external Drive.
Old HDDs were never the best for transport.

But if it has to be an HDD I would take something like
https://www.amazon.de/Freecom-Festplatte-Anti-Schock-AES-Hardwareverschlüsselung-56057/dp/B006GFJ48M

 

I managed to access the files via fl studio so I took a snapshot of what I needed to download, etc...like I said, few of my stuff were already backed up. Moving forward, I'll be getting an SSD as my WD was HDD. Thanks for the recommendation.

 

Drives will always fail eventually, so far diskwarrior has really helped me maintain and repair drives even after they start to fail. apps can give an idea about their condition. I just grabbed a two drive usb3 chassis which can duplicate when a drive starts to fail if needed.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07SSWFDMN/ref=sspa_mb_hqp_detail_mobile_aax_0?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

Buy a SSD for fast day to day use and a NAS with MULTIPLE drives in a RAID formation for long-term backups so a drive failure doesn't lose all your data, or if you prefer some decent cloud storage for offsite backups.

If you prefer the local route then I'd go for something like a Synology 5-bay NAS with RAID5 means you can lose two drives at the same instant and still not lose your data. I run all my sample/project stuff on SSDs with my time machine backups to a NAS like that. Plus you can stream all your movies or other media stuff from the NAS as well should you wish to so it comes in handy all round.

 

Like Bitmonkey said a NAS is a great
(but only with a UPS )

SMART states are sometime good and sometime bad.(And the apps which interpreted their data)
I got a SSD for 2 Years always on warning ... because it's interpret the temp scale wrong. So always 99C° which is obviously wrong
An HDD with 67% health without any problems for some time . So many Apps I used give me totally wrong information.

But even if there is happening anything bad I got a Blu-Ray Archive and a NAS with all Data and on External HDD the same Stuff.

My teacher in IT said 3-3-3
3 Media
3 Places
max 3 days without Backup.( Blu-Ray is only every Month.)

 

what is the rest stuff here ?

 

fckn amazon cant pack hdd's at my site...its lottery
even from puter seller stuff direct

 

First thing I was thinking by the thing on the right.... ohhh this is not PG

https://www.amazon.de/Fleshlight-di...ZWEZE0T8WG3&psc=1&refRID=5QTBF5JRWZWEZE0T8WG3

but sadly it's just a Transparent Bluetooth Speaker
at least "transparent appearance, penetrating sound."

http://www.orico.cc/usmobile/Group/transparent.html

other stuff Is also described there

 

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Best/reliable/stable external (hard drive) for music production?

And the second advice from my IT teacher.
Paper can be 10-100 time durabler than an HDD There are Papers 1-2k Years old. Paper can crumple but you will see it's end coming (without a tool)
An HDD will make in good time 10 -30 years (depending on many factors.)

If you can write your music on paper, do it.

I know maybe It's a useless fact but it's in some cases the most reliable,stable notation for music production

Just my 2 cent.

 

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Also, it's good to know that Amazon just put all the same model/product into the same bin, prior to delivery.
So you won't get the exact same piece that a seller provided.
This matters when there are fakes in the market.

 

All your drives will die, it's just not said when. I had samsung drives that were fine for some years, then 4 of them died within 6 months. I had seagate that died early, other seagate drives last 20 years. Same with toshiba, hitachi and so on.
Or the same drive may be fine when used every day, but used as a backup drive seldomly, the silicon oil might run dry and it dies.
Today there is no such thing as 'these are good and last long, those are bad'.
Sure you can look for amazon reviews and count stars. But as people are usually very pissed when a drive malfunctions it is likely to have more bad reviews on drives that sell well.
So: Buy any, but buy two. Have something like rsync or freefilesync for syncing the content.
That way a backup is just a click and done within seconds.

 

@Plendix Yes too all but

I think better 3 but like I said earlier. I'm maybe a bit too careful.

 

1 tb ssd for 100 with usb adapter
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kingston + perfect disk app(infinity duo)

 

any drive is by design unreliable, no matter how fast HDD spins or how many cell layers SSD has, there's always a chance for a failure, that's business
introducing additional protection by using RAID 1 is an option, but not really efficient with portable drives - afterall those are primarily meant for just transfering stuff around, not storing anything valuable for longer period anyway

right now, the way situation is, at least for me, a 128GB Corsair GTX usb 3.0 SSD stick paired with 500GB LaCie Rugged usb 3.0 drive is best of all worlds (don't need bigger capacity yet), accompanied by 4-bay Synology NAS with 10.5TB usable capacity (4x4TB SHR - 1disk fault tolerance )

aand let me just throw this comparison of Samsung T5 (SSD) vs LaCie Rugged (HDD) vs MacBook Pro (internal SSD) here, you may be surprised: