Hard Drive Reliability

2015-01-22 • SEND FEEDBACK |
Related: Apple, Apple Core Rot, hard drive, HGST, Other World Computing

MPG has been recommending Hitachi hard drives for several years, based on several solid reasons, including using 25 or so of them over the past 5 years (4TB and 5TB and now 6TB modes.

Two articles on the topic:

• Hard disk reliability examined once more: HGST rules, Seagate is alarming
• What is the Best Hard Drive?

Favorite MPG hard drives, such as for use in the OWC Thunderbay 4 or OWC Mercury Elite Pro. Note that Toshiba is part of Hitachi.

• Hitachi HGST Deskstar 6TB NAS Hard Drive
• Hitachi 4TB Deskstar 7K4000 Hard Drive
• All Hitachi hard drives