[GLLUG] Hard Drive recommendations

[Andrew Davies]

On 21/03/2014 07:20, Dylan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking to get a new hard drive for data storage and to 
> accommodate 3D graphics rendering data. It will be a 3 to 4TB SATA-3 
> drive Are there any brands/models to avoid at the moment, or any other 
> gotchas I should be aware of? This will be a purely data drive, so 
> BIOS size constraints etc are not an issue.
>
> Cheers
> Dylan
>
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Backblaze.com did a blog post about hard drive reliability a few months 
back:-

http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/