[Blennos]

Seagate drives are not really reliable. Might have some convenient features, but they tend to die sooner than I expected. If you want them for purely backup purpose, Japanese drives could be better choices. They are purely external storage devices, not trying to be close substitutes for internal hard drives, which have to handle constant data transfer. My experience shows that they are more durable. I used to use Seagate but switched to Toshiba. So far they are doing well.

I agree about Seagate. But I have never had a failure in many years using the higher-end WD drives. They are a little more expensive but well worth the outlay.

[TigerLikesRooster]

I have not used WD drives. I looked at the test statistics, and it seems that the results are mixed. Maybe it is different for the high end models.

[Vermont Lt]

I had four Drobo four drive network drives. I started out with 1TB drives. The entire thing was up to 16 bays of 4 TB drives.

I was backing up stuff at least twice.

What I did not do was a good job of indexing individual files. Finding an event is a task and a half now.

I upgraded from Seagate to WD drives because the SGs were burning up. I never lost data, but I hated tossing those drives away.