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What are your go-to brands for any electronic, networking, computing accessories or peripherals? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi all, since ya'll are self hosters, I'm sure you all deal with all sorts of different pieces of hardware, accessories, peripherals, and what not; just wondering if you could please share your favorite, solid, "go to" brands for overall things you need for your setup such as cables (all types), adapters, dongles, power accessories, hubs & docks, flash drives, you name it! I'm sure it varies depending on exactly what type of equipment you're looking for but just looking for overall good brands to stick with for such things. I obviously know the main ones like Anker, Cable Matters, Ugreen, maybe Belkin, Idk. Would love to hear your recommendations! Thank you

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

There was a time I'd avoid Western Digital cause everything they made fails, and I mostly leaned toward SanDisk cause they were very reliable, and well, my avoidance list got larger.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hmm I always though western digital was pretty decent for hard drives?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

They are. Follow the backblaze drive failure reports for quality checks.

[–] jo3shmoo 3 points 11 months ago

I've had the exact opposite experience historically. Of 5 Seagate drives I've purchased over the last decade or so, only 1 of them is still working. Meanwhile 25+ WD hard drives are still in production over the same time with only 1 that started throwing smart errors a couple years back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Western Digital owns SanDisk now fyi

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's the joke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Isn't Western Digital one of the more reliable hard drive manufacturers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not in my experience. I've never had a Hitachi that didn't fail, and almost every WD I've ever had failed. Never had an issue with Seagate or Samsung before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

There's your individual experience, but I'm basing my statement on Backblaze's annual drive failure rate reports.