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Why the hell would you trust WD over Seagate‽ Genuinely curious, I've had nothing but bad luck with spinning WD drives to the point where I don't trust them.
Edit: it's an honest question and I'd like to know if I'm playing dumbass Russian roulette with SD ...I am a past victim of the death star WD drive. (Deskstar)
I've been working in tech for over 30 years and every drive I've had catastrophically fail (including my very first) has been a Seagate.
It's at a point now where I pre-emptively just replace anything Seagate. "I can do it now when it works or wait for it to fail..."
Backblaze releases regular statistics on hard drive failures, this may not necessarily apply to SSDs, but once you've been burned on hard drives it's hard not to apply it to all their gear:
https://platinumdatarecovery.com/blog/most-reliable-brand
"According to the last test, for 4TB drives, you should consider skipping Seagate and opt for Toshiba and HSGT. However, even among different capacity drives, different models at different price ranges can be expected to be more or less reliable over time.
For example, Backblaze found that the specific models of the Seagate 6TB, HSGT 12TB, and WDC 16TB, have had a 0 percent failure rate in 2021 – which is quite impressive. And they can be one of your next disks."
That's pretty damning... I'm in broadcast engineering and deal with lots of storage myself but never followed the failing drives. I've had luck with Seagate in the past but I bet I'm missing the reality.
-Funny how some brands burn you once and they're dead to you....Seagate seems to have gone full scorched Earth.
Is it SSD or just spinning drives?
Edit: I got burned by WD years ago and kinda have applied it to all this stuff incorrectly too.
It really isn’t damning. Seagate is fine as is WD, HGST, and Toshiba. They all make bad drives once in a while, none of them are perfect. Scroll to the conclusion in that link and it says the differences are not significant and there’s no clear winner or loser.
So I'm Looking to go to microcenter tomorrow and pick up some internal storage....wtf is going on with all the drives now days? I can't tell what's what anymore