Firstly, the phrase 'long-lasting' should be clarified.
Personally, I own quite a few old HDDs that still work great.
A few 500 Seagate from e.g. 2007, but also e.g. Samsung from 2004 or Maxtor 2007, 2004.
By excellent I mean good sector access times and not just the absence of bad sectors.
Currently, however, it is less and less profitable to archive data on a large number of smaller drives because the price of 1gb of these very capacious is similar to 500-1000gb of used from the Allegro.
I do, however, praise them because they do more work and take up more space, but in the event that one of them dies, I do not lose a few TB, but, for example, 500gb.
However, 3.5 inch drives need additional power supply and 2.5 inch can be connected to a computer with a cable for a few zlotys.
As for the models, you should rather ask about the black list and choose the HDD which are not on it and after the purchase check its SMART and access times.
And this should be done from time to time. This is all the more important if the HDD performs/loads files more slowly, e.g. thumbnails.
ps. Seagate generally do not appeal to me if only because they do not show the entire SMART, but buying a (supposedly) new drive their advantage is an additional FARM system in addition to SMART.
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