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…so what’s the best HDD company to buy from now? Crucial?
Show 0 brand loyalty, buy what's proven to be stable (for your use case)
There are a few very large hosting providers that publish their drive failure rates publicly for the benefit of the community.
I use such reports when I go to purchase disks and I've never had a problem since.
BackBlaze offers them but I'm sure many others are out there as well.
Hard drives are essentially just WD and Seagate. All other hard drive companies have had their hard drive division bought out by either company.
Its only SSD which has other players
Toshiba still makes hard drives. That's basically the three remaining big manufacturers.
I got two crucial SSDs recently.
The first one was DOA and was so broken that the two motherboards I tested refused to power on with it installed.
The second one was a replacement for the first and exhibited the exact same behavior.
I did not get a third. Maybe their HDDs are better, but I'm not planning on finding out.
Seagate