Good 2tb drive for raid one

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Spankymcbob1

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gonna finally manage my storage mess and buy two 2TB drives. I currently have 3 500gb drives and a failing 1.5, they all are 2011 or earlier models of drives. but I just finally wanna buy two 2TB drives and pretty much move everything over to those. I mostly have steam games so really only about 750GB are gonna be going on the new drives. But I'm just trying to figure out if these 2TB drives are reliable enough for the budget range drives.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013QFRS2S/ref=crt_ewc_img_gw_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
 
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I would not RAID SSDs, and I also would not recommend them for storage due to the cost per GB. Better to buy a pair of 2-4 TB drives and just attach one and back up to the other in a USB caddy or THIS IcyDock if you have an extra 5.25 inch unused slot in your computer for higher transfer speeds as it connects to internal SATA ports. Just do a regular periodic backup and keep the second drive disconnected most of the time.

Relying on motherboard RAID for anything is problematic because any bios issue can break your RAID and even make RAID 1 drives difficult to read without a lot of work. And while a separate controller eliminates that issue it adds a lot of cost that you don't need.
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Shaun o

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That`s about right. I mean that 1.5 TB drive lasting for five years of use before developing a fault or failing.

For the record Spanky out of all the drives you could of picked by brand name WD are really reliable drives with a very low failure rate, well built.

After that I would be looking at Seagate drives.

Would avoid Toshiba based hard drives at all costs, very noisy and tend to fail after just a few months use.
I cannot remember if Toshiba bought out Hitachi or not.

But Hitachi Desk star drives were good solid and reliable also with a low failure rate.
 
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I would not RAID SSDs, and I also would not recommend them for storage due to the cost per GB. Better to buy a pair of 2-4 TB drives and just attach one and back up to the other in a USB caddy or THIS IcyDock if you have an extra 5.25 inch unused slot in your computer for higher transfer speeds as it connects to internal SATA ports. Just do a regular periodic backup and keep the second drive disconnected most of the time.

Relying on motherboard RAID for anything is problematic because any bios issue can break your RAID and even make RAID 1 drives difficult to read without a lot of work. And while a separate controller eliminates that issue it adds a lot of cost that you don't need.
 
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