Hard Drive Reliability

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