Hi all, My plan is to buy an internal 3.5" HDD, put it in an enclosure, and use it to copy data from my parents computer to it as a backup. 2TB should be enough.
Now, the cheapest I've found new in my city is the Seagate Barracuda, but there are others similarly priced 2TB disks, like the Toshiba P3000, and the WD Blue and Purple. But then I read that IronWolf seems better for a usecase like this and now I'm confused.
Honestly the HDD will see new data maybe twice a year, since it's mostly for vacation photos. I just want to know if SMR and CMR matters in this case or if one of the models I mentioned would be better than the others. I'm mostly concerned with reliability, as in, the HDD won't have many writes nor reads (I think that's called cold storage, but I'm still learning) and I'm not sure if that can be bad for the HDD.
Thanks!