WD Blue vs Red vs ? - Long Term Video Archive

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September 12, 2018
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Since I don’t do a ton of editing and do this simply as a hobby I am thinking I would like to archive my videos/projects by using a SATA dock (aka toaster oven) and some desktop HDs (WD Blue, Red, etc). I’ve been told to stay away from Seagate.

I am trying determine if I should go with WD Blues (4TB drives) or WD Reds (a bit more expensive). I’ve seen a lot of folks using WD Blues (what we’re the WD Greens) for this purpose. Keep in mind this is to simply store old videos/projects. These will sit on the shelf and will only be pulled to archive more videos/projects.

Thanks.

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Richard van den Boogaard

Community Expert

*Always* have archive disks in pairs. One disk may fail, but the chance of that happening to two at the same time is very remote. Make sure to spin them up every six months or so.

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Richard M Knight

Community Expert

I wouldn't trust any single HDD they will fail eventually, I've lost one backup due to failure. I now have an 8 disc Drobo NAS and have had two WD reds fail in that but the redundancy saved the files. For my editing discs I have 8 WD RE enterprise drives in a Raid 5 and have also had 2 failures with those.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

I have never lost a hdd. I had 4 running for 10 years (wd black).

Peru Bob

Community Expert

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Ann+Bens wrote
I have never lost a hdd. I had 4 running for 10 years (wd black).

You are fortunate, Ann.

In the last 10 years, I have lost about eight HDDs: a combination of internal and external Seagates and Western Digitals, including a couple under warranty. The good news is that I never lost any data because all were well backed up.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

I use Red for backups.

CC268Author

Inspiring

Thanks. Reds seem like the way to go. could always use them if I get an NAS down the road too.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

My red is internal: 4T.

I have also access to a NAS which stores the backup for my media.

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