[Leica] Hard drive advice?

[Spencer Cheng]

My friend, the Linux HDD guru [yes, he really is a guru - he writes device drivers for the disk manufactures under contract] , swears by WD Ultrastar 14TB (or so) 3.5” drives. I’ve had lots of failures of both Seagate (piece of cr*p) 3.5” HDDs and run-of-the-mill mainstream WD 3.5” HDDs over the years. My one and only Ultrastar 14TB HDD hasn’t failed yet.

For those of you old enough, Ultrastar HDDs originated at IBM in 1994 as Deskstar. We use to semi-jokingly call them FireStars because the IBM version ran hot. These are better quality HDDs.

Good Luck,
Spencer

PS. For those of you who has ever received a warranty’ed HDD by mail from any manufacturer (or any HDD shipped to you for any reason), don’t use them for anything important. 

I just put mine warranty replacement drives in the pile of HDDs which are probably bad. They are mostly warranty returned drives in the first place AND  likely been dropped in shipping to you. Spinning rust drives do not like being dropped.
 
> On Oct 13, 2021, at 17:52, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> For the computer literati on the list.  I suffered a hard drive failure on
> my 5 slot Drobo.  Not a problem and have swapped in a replacement drive.  I
> did change settings to two drive failure mode with a corresponding decrease
> in capacity.
> 
> My question is what are the better 3.5 inch large capacity drives?  I am
> currently using 6tb red wolf drives and am contemplating going to 14tb
> drives if they have similar reliability probabilities.
> 
> Advice and suggestions happily received.
> -- 
> Don
> don.dory at gmail.com
> 
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