The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Rhoken on 2025-05-29 16:48:58.
It's been from some years that i have start to hoard and backup most of my data and in particular when i was starting to do photography, to a point that i have now various drives around.
Some days ago i have buyed a new HDD cage for my two backup HDDs (Toshiba P300) which is one 2 TB unit and one 1 TB unit, synching everything with Synkron.
But i want to ditch the 1 TB unit and add a 4 TB unit but the HDD market has changed drastically from last times (4-5 years ago).
I don't want to spend many money (budget is 100-120 euros) and with this budget i have find these models:
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Seagate Ironwolf 4 TB ST4000VN006 (CMR)
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Seagate Barracuda 4 TB ST4000DM004 (SMR)
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HGST Ultrastar 7 K6000 4 TB HUS726040ALE610 (CMR?)
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Toshiba P300 4 TB HDWD240UZSVA (SMR)
The Toshiba is the cheapest one (75 euros) while the Ironwolf the most expensive (94 euros) the others one are in between 80 to 100 euros, which of these are on par or better than my two P300s in terms of performance and reliability?