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Can someone please recommend an 8tb+ hard drive for archiving that could also be used as a viable project-drive in a pinch.

Among numerous other backup strategies, I make daily copies of my of my work by dragging them to a high capacity HDD. Once that's full it becomes an archive. However, sometimes I need access to the archived projects and it's nice to be able to simply work from that HDD for fast and easy fixes.

It's been a while since I needed a new HDD and the landscape has changed. Most of the 8tb+ drives are designed for servers (NAS, Enterprise Class etc). I'm not sure if there's a diff between those and what I need.

...also, I'm not so interested in Seagate. Their failure rate is dramatically higher than all the others I see.

Would this WD be good? 7200rpm, 256 cache, 5 year warranty: https://www.amazon.com/Gold-Enterprise- ... 5-fkmrnull

Thanks!

WD NAS red

Check. Thx!

There was a time when Seagate drives had a higher failure rate than others. Based on recent Backblaze stats, 'dem days are gone.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-dri ... s-for-2018

Just sayin'.

Most of the 8tb+ drives are designed for servers (NAS, Enterprise Class etc). I'm not sure if there's a diff between those and what I need.

Built for extra heavy-duty service, larger, more durable bearings, lower energy consumption etc. It's still a mechanical drive.

WD NAS red

I've never had one fail.

There was a time when Seagate drives had a higher failure rate than others. Based on recent Backblaze stats, 'dem days are gone.

That does appear to be true.

Enterprise drives are designed to be as fast as possible and run very hot. More and more, that use is being taken over by SSDs as they've become very reliable with very low energy costs.

NAS HHDs are the tanks of data storage. You can still damage one by dropping onto the floor but that's about it nowadays. Time Machine and archival don't require speed.

Thanks y'alls! I went for the WD Red. I'm more into Westerns than seas.