"T i m" wrote in message
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On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 21:16:15 +0100, Vir Campestris
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On 17/08/2019 13:01, T i m wrote:
Hi all,

Still playing with the idea of putting together a couple of NAS's, one
for me (because) and one for daughter as she want's to get all her
photos together in one place (or 'copies of' at least).

Reading to the end of the thread

Thanks for that Andy. ;-)

I didn't see anyone mention the
Backblaze surveys:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/

They have damn good stats on some drive types.

I've had a good read but I'm not sure what I can take from it?

By that I mean like many things there isn't really any way you can
sure that version E of something *will* inherit the good
characteristics of version D or that it's baby brother is even the
result of the same parents!

That's specially true of Seagate that bought the Samsung 3.5"
HDD line relatively recently and has a tradition of continuing the
operations they bought and just rebranding what they produce.

Like badged displays where it's not worth a company making say sub 23"
screens so they just rebadge someone else's (for better or worse).

At least with a (cheaper) 'white label' drive you know you could get
anything and it could be something good or not. It's frustrating
spending more on something that is supposed to be from a 'good' stable
only to find out that it's not (or is the black sheep of the family).

It's like the drives in my old WHS are probably 10+ years old now (I
thought they were Hitachi but WHS device manager tells me they are
500GB Samsung HM501II's):

https://www.hdsentinel.com/storagein...NG%20HM 501II

So I'd love to replace them with 3 x 1TB Samsung drives of the same
build / design as the existing but what are the chances of finding
such a thing?

I do in fact have quite a few of them myself. None have ever failed.