[PLUG] Hard Drives - WD Red Pro?

[Keith Lofstrom]

I'm looking for big hard drives for disk-to-disk backup.
I want reliability; speed and access time less important.
5400 RPM is probably more reliable than 7200 RPM.  

I used to buy large hard drives from local merchants;
with Enu and Pacific Micro gone, I know of no good local
options.  Iguana has hard drives, but nothing over 4TB,
no high-reliability disks.  So, Amazon or Newegg or ?

I am leaning towards Western Digital Red Pro 8TB with
the 5 year warranty.  Perhaps 50% more $ per byte than
a WD Blue 4TB, but cheaper per byte-year.  Big drives
store more data per hour of setup time, though I lose
more backup images in one go if they fail (I backup
to two different backup servers). 

If some of you have better ideas, please share them here.

Keith

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com