My TM drive has just failed and I’m looking for an alternative. There have been so many mergers and rebranding among drive manufacturers over the last few years and noise about how previously good brands have been taken over and now sell junk, I’m trying ti get a steer on which ones are still decent.
Looking for 4TB - to be honest, happy woth spinning rust as it is only for backup the speed of an SSD not really needed.
If you really don’t care about speed: https://www.amazon.ca/Crucial-PCIe-NAND-NVMe-3500MB/dp/B0B25P44CL/
If you care about speed but also on a budget: https://www.amazon.ca/WD_BLACK-SN850X-Internal-Gaming-Solid/dp/B0B7CQ2CHH/ or https://www.amazon.ca/Sabrent-Internal-Extreme-Performance-SB-RKT4P-4TB/dp/B08VF99PV8/
If you care about speed: https://www.amazon.ca/Crucial-T700-Gen5-NVMe-heatsink/dp/B0C3KFGPT8/ (added because crazy cyber Monday deal)
I bought a few last year and settled on the Sabrent for my 4TB storage. Been solid.
As for external enclosures, Sabrent has a decent 10Gbps one, so does UGREEN. I picked up a ZikeDrive Z666 USB4 enclosure because speed. It runs hot so I had to slap a block on the SSD (they claim it fits them but it’s hella tight) which helped keep it at 40C. Orico also has some decent enclosures.
But if you’re dead set on a HDD, I’d go with https://www.amazon.ca/Seagate-Barracuda-Internal-Drive-3-5-Inch/dp/B07H289S7C/ With traditional drives, it’s more about finding the cost per GB than anything. It looks like 8GB is the sweet spot and then scales up. Scaling down likely means paying more for less.
Lastly. One thing to note, Samsung has no warranty system in place for Canada and will lock you in an endless loop of no help by pushing you to the US system which will tell you can’t handle Canadian warranty claims. Just FYI.
Thanks for the comprehensive reply, appreciated.
Seagate are still pretty good? Western Digital/Sandisk are the ones with failing external SSD issues at the moment (same company).
It’s pot luck generally, unfortunately. Even good manufacturers can have a bad batch.
Cheers. Couldn’t remember if Seagate had been sucked into WD.
Agree about bad batches, but it’s the way Sandisk responded to the problem that’s been particularly unimpressive.
Mine is on a NAS populated with WD reds I sync over network
