Best hard drives on Reddit
141 reviews from r/unRAID, r/DataHoarder, r/ROGAllyX and 18 more subreddits
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#1
Seagate
4.4
(33)
"Seagate Ironwolf, Wester Digital Red Plus/Red Pro are popular choices."
"The ability to run SeaTools on Linux allows for better control over HDD power management."
"I've been using 5 12TB Seagate drives without issue for around 18 months now."
"Seagate brand is my go to now for drives."
"Seagate EXOS offers the best price/storage ratio in Europe."
"At least as good as any other you mentioned."
"I use the 16TB Exos and it's fantastic for storage!"
"Seagate exos are fantastic."
"I only use Seagate EXOS now. Replaced my IronWolf with them and saw a performance boost in read speeds."
"Seagate EXOS."
#2
Samsung
4.7
(21)
"My pick and what I use for my externals are Samsung T9 4TB drives."
"2tb ssd’s speed and reliability is excellent"
"Excellent speed and durability."
"I like the heatsink shape, it doesn’t push on the battery connector at all."
"Samsung 990 Pro 4TB w/ heatsink."
"I'm using a Samsung 990 Pro 2TB."
"I find my Samsung T7 drives to be very well made, fast, and reliable."
"They are also backed up to my NAS which is in my basement. No issues using that either."
"I use the Samsung EVO 4TB and 8 TB SSD’s have not had any issues with them."
"I use Samsung T5 and T7 SSD’s. No issues 8 years in."
#3
Western Digital
4.1
(23)
"Seagate Ironwolf, Wester Digital Red Plus/Red Pro are popular choices."
"I prefer the Western Digital HDD's. If I catch them on sale I will buy the WD Red drives."
"I just buy the WD external HDD's and shuck them if I want to install them in my NAS."
"I will only buy Western Digital drives, and only WD Red for my NAS."
"A LOT of people really really like certified rebuilt drives from serverpartdeals or similar."
"I had a very good experience with Red Pro and shucking drives."
"Consistent write speed of about 90 MB/s and great price."
"Upgrading my Ally X with a WD_BLACK 4TB SN850X today."
"I’m using the WD SN850x 4tb with a simple heat sink attachment. Runs like butter :3"
"Western digital , Seagate I've always been reliant on these .. Good brands, warranty, Portable ones have 2TB size.. Good room for external size .."
#4
WD
3.9
(19)
"I've been using a WD My Passport. It’s compact and holds a ton of data."
"Reliable performance and good price."
"WD enterprise disks are also a great choice for reliability."
"It’s really affordable and almost good as new and its sealed with Nitrogen so it takes a lot of vibrations and other NAS related abuse."
"Have used them for years since Windows MCE was a thing. Never had to use the warranty which is longer than the Reds."
"Zero issues and been up for 92 days."
"The WD Easystore 2TB is a great portable hard drive for backups, easy to store and manage."
"I use a WD Black 1 TB SSD."
"It works great IMHO"
"My last group of 4 3TB WD drives went around 7 years with 1 drive failure."
#5
Toshiba
4.6
(8)
"I use the Toshiba mg08 and it runs at a cool 19 degrees Celsius."
"They offer great quality, speed, reliability and can be obtained quite cheap here in Germany."
"They offer great quality, speed, reliability and can be obtained quite cheap here in Germany."
"They offer great quality, speed, reliability and can be obtained quite cheap here in Germany."
"Running more quiet, cooler and faster than the WD Red 10TB I had before. No fails/errors up till now."
"I’ve been eyeing the Toshiba 14 TB drives."
"I personally look for a 5 year warranty for my drives and then best price per TB."
"Toshiba N300 NAS drives."
#6
Crucial
4.5
(4)
"The site provides a list of compatible drives based on your specifications."
"A great value for a 1TB SSD at around $80."
"Fast and low temps"
"The Crucial P3 has a significant power draw compared to other options."
#7
GoHardDrive
5.0
(3)
"Refurbished 5yr warranty drives for cheap."
"Great deals on GoHardDrive and server parts."
"I only buy from GoHardDrive or ServerPartDeals since they are well established and have reputable warranty policies."
#8
NVMe
4.7
(3)
"Get yourself a PCIe 3-4 NVME drive, 1-2TB is sufficient enough."
"You can do similar with NVMe."
"I started using NVME SSD external drives last year due to too many platter drives giving me issues."
#9
Amazon
5.0
(2)
"16TB for $130"
"I’ve bought 6 renewed 16tb drives at different times."
#10
ServerPartsDeals
4.5
(2)
"Highly recommend recertified enterprise drives. Just scan for health before use."
"Used drives from a reputable place like serverpartsdeals are a great way to save money. The 90-day warranty gives you time to test the drive."
#11
Synology
4.5
(2)
"Get a NAS and never look back. It will give you at least some protection against drive failure and you can swap out drives for new ones to expand your storage pool as things fill up."
"My backup is a Synology NAS. As a backup it's fine because the lack of outright speed is made up for in reliability."
#12
Easystore
4.0
(2)
"Easystore are cheap and reliable."
"Great value for shuckable drives under $15/tb."
#13
HP
2.0
(4)
"The Pavilion has an SSD slot, but the performance difference with the i3 CPU is minimal."
"The Elitebook is slow due to the hard drive, and it lacks internal SSD support."
"The slow loading on the pavilion is primarily caused by that drive. Old school HDDs are sloooow."
"Swapping them will just make the Elitebook perform like ass instead."
#14
Ironwolf
2.5
(2)
"If you wanna invest more, then Ironwolf or WD Red are gonna be good options."
"Ironwolf and red feel like such a scam."
#15
Areca 8050T3U-4A
5.0
(1)
"I'd say Areca 8050T3U-4As built in RAID5 are probably the most cost effective."
#16
OWC Thunderbay
5.0
(1)
"I just got an OWC Thunderbay 24TB a month ago and it's phenomenal."
#17
Name Brand
4.0
(1)
"I 100% recommend buying good, name brand used disks."
#18
SATA
4.0
(1)
"Personally, I'd suggest getting a SATA SSD for your games."
#19
OWC RAID
4.0
(1)
"Buy an open box owc raid with 0 drives off their website."
#20
Dell
4.0
(1)
"I like the 8TBSSD to edit off of."
#21
Sabrent Rocket 4
4.0
(1)
"The 8TB Sabrent Rocket 4."
#22
HGST
4.0
(1)
"Refurbished 12, 14, 18 TB from serverpartdeals and goharddrive. HGST and Seagate."
#23
eBay
4.0
(1)
"Your cheapest bet is to get a used hard drive on ebay that was previously used in a data center."
#24
Toshiba, WD, Seagate
4.0
(1)
"Any drive from Toshiba, WD or Seagate."
#25
SSD
4.0
(1)
"It's best to do some cleaning on those drives by removing games they don’t play."
#26
Maxtor
4.0
(1)
"Unfortunately, you can commonly only find them up to 250GB. The largest IDE drives I've ever found in the wild were 320GB and those are rare."
#27
WD Blue
3.0
(1)
"The very cheapest like the WD blue drives cut every corner they can."
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