Best Hardware for System Backups

Back in the day when I used HDDs, while I had a few drives fail, no particular one of the major brands had more failures than the other. (Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba, and Samsung) So if you're going the HDD route any one should suit your purpose.
A couple of HDDs for your perusal.
$219 WD 10 tb
$300 Seagate 22tb

I have never had an ssd or m.2 drive fail. Again, all I use are the major brands. I've steered clear of the off-breeds.

glasskuter said:

Back in the day when I used HDDs, while I had a few drives fail, no particular one of the major brands had more failures than the other. (Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba, and Samsung) So if you're going the HDD route any one should suit your purpose.
A couple of HDDs for your perusal.
$219 WD 10 tb
$300 Seagate 22tb

I have never had an ssd or m.2 drive fail. Again, all I use are the major brands. I've steered clear of the off-breeds.

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Thank you very much for the suggestions! This is very helpful.

For those capacities, 10TB+you are stuck with 3.5" mechanical HDDs, They are slow so USB3 connection is still faster than disks themselves so it's enough, All HDDs are "major manufacturer", there's only few left. Enclosure manufacturers you have few more but they all use HDDs from those few left. Those enclosures are relatively simple devices, just SATA3 to USB3. Because those HDDs are 3.5" format they all use power adapter to 12v.
Or you can put one together by getting HDD and interface separately.

Xoanon said:

~10Tb or more

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hdmi said:

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https://www.amazon.com/Bay-RAID-Enclosure-3-0%EF%BC%8BeSATA-Supports/dp/B0DCZ152X5

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Lol, a it overboard, that could run NASA.

CountMike said:

Lol, a it overboard, that could run NASA.

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Well actually the 37 TB external storage that you can see in my specs consists of 16 × 3.5″ HDDs. Each one is in a separate enclosure.