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)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (6 children)

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."

[–] deranger 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I don’t understand the point you’re making when it also says in your quote that Seagate 6TB has a 0% failure rate. The 4TB models were an outlier. Modern 10+ TB Seagates have failure rates that are comparable to the rest. HGST is a bit better than them all.

I pay attention to the Backblaze stats, and both WD and Seagate have stinkers once in a while. I just don’t get HDD fanboyism. They’re all mechanical, they all can fail. Mitigate this with RAID and 3-2-1 backups. There’s no magic perfectly reliable HDD. Always plan on them failing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Again, this is simply the latest stats, year after year, after year Seagate drives are the least reliable compared with other brands.

[–] deranger 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

From your own link:

At the end of the day, it’s still difficult to figure out which manufacturer to trust.

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Luckily, unless you’re actually in the business of data storage, these tiny percentage differences won’t make that big of a difference for you.

As I said, no significant difference. Guess who is in the business of data storage and uses a shit load of Seagate drives? Backblaze.

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