Buy whichever's cheapest and then use ZFS or Btrfs. Drives die, and its pointless trying to guess in advance which make or model is gonna be good or bad.
The age old debate
Easton Bennett
Brandon Miller
I remember reading that you should avoid hhd that are not a binary amount.
I'm not sure what word I'm looking for but what I mean is like 1TB is ok, 2TB is ok, 3TB is no good, 4TB good, 5TB bad, 6TB bad, 7TB bad, 8TB is ok, 16TB is good but 9-15 are bad.
It's something to do with the manufacturing process and anything outside those numbers are dodgy.
Jaxson Williams
depends on size and specific models really.
Julian Jackson
there was a disastrously bad batch of seagate 2tb drives in 2011/12 i had 2 die without warning and personally know 3 other people who had catastrophic data loss because of them ( good bye wedding photos)
I still have a bunch of 500gb WD laptop sized usb portables from 2008 i still use as daily beaters. They have been all over the world with me and x-rayed countless times. Pretty fucking remarkable.
I seriously need a NAS and bunch of new storage but i simply cant afford it at the moment :('''''
Caleb Torres
It's ALL A SCAM, they all die eventually. There is no escaping it, these are not devices that last. Specially not Seagate. I have several dead 3 TB Seagate HDDs. I sent one that died after 3 months back in under their warranty program and got a dead "refurbished" HDD back. Another Seagate 3 TB died a month after that. I didn't bother to send that in under warranty since Seagate would just replace it with yet another dead HDD.
WD is slightly better than Seagate. I've had a WD green drives fail within 2 years and a WD Black drive fail after 11 years.
The only escape from the horrible quality of modern harddrives is to use six drive RAID6 configurations for storage and RAID1 for OS and programs. That way storage isn't lost even if two of six drives fail and you're fine as long as you replace the drives before a third failure.
Jose Scott
personal experience is that WD always fails. have not yet had a WD drive that hasn't failed eventually.
Seagate at worst gets a few reallocated sectors when using a worn out cable. Otherwise, I have 10+ year old drives that still work
Just don't buy the 3TB drives, they seem to fail all the time. but 1TB or 2TB drives, i bought a bunch used and they all work
Aiden Flores
> MAXTOR
Damn that hit me with some hard core FEELS
Benjamin Davis
What about Toshiba
Justin Hernandez
I have a 2 tb Seagate drive that I bought a couple years ago for $50 and it hasn't failed me once. Maybe I'm just lucky.
Kayden Wilson
I have a lot of Toshiba 3 TB HDDs and none of them have failed me, I've actually never had a Toshiba HDD fail me ever. Their drives are quite fast but they are also noisy.
While this may make it appear that Toshiba drives are good it is by no means proof. I'm fairly sure the first Toshiba 3 TB's I bought were put in an array in 2014. Also bought some in 2016. WD red's in that array have also not failed but Seagate 3 TBs have. Anyway.. it's not been that long and a Toshiba HDD could fail me tomorrow for all I know.
I have two failed Seagate 2 TB HAS HDDs in the recycling bin. I think they lasted something like 5 years, not entirely sure.