Yeah, it's tiring to hear people complain about how (insert manufacturer here)'s hard drives constantly die on them. That's what hard drives ultimately do, and you're not going to get significantly better longevity from changing what company you purchase from.
It’s relatively well documented Seagate is the Chrysler of hard drives. Every other brand is more long term reliable. But like Chrysler, Seagate is cheap, so people with no concept of quality will buy them.
The topic of backups are irrelevant. Obviously everyone should backup regardless of brand of drive. But downtime is downtime.
I've used WD and Seagate, and all i know is i have had both fail me. And backblaze tends to back my experience up with their stats in failures showing it to be about even between WD and Seagate. And when it comes to a NAS, friends make sure friends use RAID or ZFS.
There are several "other" brands... and the data showed is pretty much my own experience. Seagate has some very good and reliable drives in the wild for awhile now.
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trparky - Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - link
Friends don't let friends buy Seagate.piroroadkill - Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - link
Friends advise friends not rely on any single drive. Backups, backups, backups.....Dizoja86 - Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - link
Yeah, it's tiring to hear people complain about how (insert manufacturer here)'s hard drives constantly die on them. That's what hard drives ultimately do, and you're not going to get significantly better longevity from changing what company you purchase from.Samus - Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - link
It’s relatively well documented Seagate is the Chrysler of hard drives. Every other brand is more long term reliable. But like Chrysler, Seagate is cheap, so people with no concept of quality will buy them.The topic of backups are irrelevant. Obviously everyone should backup regardless of brand of drive. But downtime is downtime.
doggface - Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - link
I've used WD and Seagate, and all i know is i have had both fail me. And backblaze tends to back my experience up with their stats in failures showing it to be about even between WD and Seagate. And when it comes to a NAS, friends make sure friends use RAID or ZFS.PeachNCream - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link
Every other brand? What other brands? If you're not buying a Seagate HDD then you're buying a Western Digital drive.brunis.dk - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link
You should check statistics for failure rates before saying that.Chad - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link
There are several "other" brands... and the data showed is pretty much my own experience. Seagate has some very good and reliable drives in the wild for awhile now.