Should i Stay or Should I go!
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GimboV
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I used to use Western Digital drives exclusively until a few years ago. It seemed every WD drive I got went bad. So I made the switch to Seagate and only looked back once for system build with a WD Black. I only did this because the customer insisted on WD. I just replaced my personal 7 year old system with 3 Seagate drives and never had an issue with any of them. Also have done many other system builds with Seagate and no issues that I know of. Just purchased a Seagate 2tb hybrid drive for my current build. Maybe WD has changed in recent years and I should revisit them, but I have had such good performance with Seagate I shudder when thinking about changing.
Rich-M
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That's amazing Gimbo as I have the exact opposite experience where every single Seagate drive I used 2 years ago came back dead and I have only ever replaced one WD. Now go back a few years WD had some bad series and I remember the drives were all black and I had a lot of trouble with those. Then I am doing really well with Crucial Ssd drives and the reviews are terrible. They are the best ones I have used and every one of them is still in use the oldest being over 3 years now. I am still curious to see if I get 10 years out of any of them but based on what I have read it is more than possible.
DSTM
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Failure rates seem to scale linearly with size I have been reading.
2TB Drives from nearly every manufacturer have twice the failure rate of 1TB Drives.
I like Western Digital, Under heavy load I find they are somewhat noisy.Still my choice.
Worst I have experienced has been Hitachi. Three out of three failed before Warrany expired thankfully.
One lasted 1 week.
For all my computers I run SSD's now and keep the Sata's for storage and Clones of each OS.
2TB Drives from nearly every manufacturer have twice the failure rate of 1TB Drives.
I like Western Digital, Under heavy load I find they are somewhat noisy.Still my choice.
Worst I have experienced has been Hitachi. Three out of three failed before Warrany expired thankfully.
One lasted 1 week.
For all my computers I run SSD's now and keep the Sata's for storage and Clones of each OS.
Rich-M
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Definitely true that over 1 gb there is little stability in any hard drives. Now remember Hitachi is no Toshiba but I have had little trouble with either of those. I seldom go away from WD but those are the ones I sometimes do and again I have yet to see a bad one. I would think this is personal except most people have had multiple issues with Seagate drives if you spend much time on forums.
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