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Trying to figure out which drives to get. Please refrain from suggesting SSD's, I already have an NVMe pro 512GB drive as well as a 500gb 850 pro drive. I'm just looking for two 2TB drives, or even 3TB if the cost is less than $15 apart. I'm looking for storage for all of my steam games, my Virtual box work, and that one large folder everyone has. I don't really wanna buy a WD black drive, I've owned them in the past, as a matter of fact I have a stack of 5 of them that have all failed or are in a failing state. So I'm not super crazy about performance more so than reliable storage for about 10-16 hours a day operation. I don't want them to be super slow either so no Green drives etc.... Although I was looking into buying 2 WD red drives, or maybe the HGST NAS drives. Just trying to see if anyone else knows of any other drives that I should try.

Please no seagate
 
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NAS drives aren't necessarily better than non-NAS. They include features that add to price which may not statistically improve reliability in a desktop.

This should be all 2TB or higher drives: http://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#S=2000000,10000000&f=2

It's very difficult to find reliable drive failure information.

This is a WD RED (NAS) 3TB drive. Even though I said don't necessarily buy it, from reading around I haven't seen any major issues and it's reasonably priced: http://pcpartpicker.com/product/7sTmP6/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd30efrx

If you assume an average of 10GB per game (it varies a lot) then you can have about 93 games on 1TB (you can use about 93% of the reported space due to formatting...
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NAS drives aren't necessarily better than non-NAS. They include features that add to price which may not statistically improve reliability in a desktop.

This should be all 2TB or higher drives: http://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#S=2000000,10000000&f=2

It's very difficult to find reliable drive failure information.

This is a WD RED (NAS) 3TB drive. Even though I said don't necessarily buy it, from reading around I haven't seen any major issues and it's reasonably priced: http://pcpartpicker.com/product/7sTmP6/western-digital-internal-hard-drive-wd30efrx

If you assume an average of 10GB per game (it varies a lot) then you can have about 93 games on 1TB (you can use about 93% of the reported space due to formatting and the fact they list size in binary, not base 10.

For backup of C-drive, I use Acronis True Image. I setup for a full backup + incrementals (as a chain, and I have two so about two months with weekly backups) and end up with about 200GB maximum for a 100GB C-drive usage, but you can easily reduce that to about the SAME as you're install size (it's compressed, so if you add a few incrementals it may work out about the same).
 
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I find reliable information hard to find, though after extensive research I did buy a 4TB Hitachi. I was really guessing based on a lot of opinions, reviews etc.

Also at the time I used what may be unreliable data from a server that talked about a particular 3TB Seagate drive (ends in DM0001). It got big news and really hurt Seagate but it turned out they used a desktop HDD for a server and also incorrectly mounted it which caused vibration (server drives have anti-vibration features, though you should still mount them properly).

I would avoid any drive not out for six months at least though.

THIS may be a great choice too-> https://www.amazon.com/HGST-Deskstar-3-5-Inch-Internal-0S03660/dp/B00HHAJU7K/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1465708118&sr=1-3&keywords=hitachi+3tb

I should add that Amazon's review system is a complete and utter mess. They constantly mix up similar items under the comment section. They do that for computer parts, DVD's and other things. I have no idea how that's possible since you'd think they would go by the part number.
 
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