Who makes the most reliable spinny drives these days?
 

I've been out of the IT game for quite a while, so I have lost any relevant first hand experience based opinions on the subject.

When I used to work in IT, the company I worked for first mainly used Maxtors, out of the 30 or so I installed the majority were those 1/2 thickness (20-40gig) drives. Almost every single one of the 1/2 thickness drives we installed had a failure within a year, and I even had a few failures of the larger 60 gig drives (one of which was in my own PC).

I have a sour taste from Western Digitals too, my very first computer I ever owned had a 212mb WD, and I had to have it replaced twice...

We then started using Seagates, and out of the 500 or so I installed I honestly saw maybe only a dozen failures over the remaining few years I worked at that company. My current home desktop machine has a 500Gig PATA drive which used to be in a fileserver for a year and it's still chugging along (It's probably a good 3-4 years old)

But lately I've been hearing Seagates have been having problems?


So who's best these days?

For myself I'm currently using WD Black's. I have 3 of them in my desktop and not a single problem. My previous Seagates were loud and annoying.

i have a WD green 1tb and 1.5 tb on my comp and theres no problem with it so far. i personally think WD has the best hds these days

I use Seagate Barracuda ES2 for critical personal data (all my family/friend's photo/videos) in Raid1 (used to be WD RE4 until one of them crap'd out)

Seagate 7200.12 in raid 5 for usual stuff (general data, pictures from my DSLR... etc) The newer 7200.12 is excellent IMO. I have in total 10 of them in different sizes and never have a problem.

i have a 3 WD black drives 2 WD green and 1 seagate
and no problems with the WD drives.
i am on my 3rd seagate drive after RMA a couple of times and ever since then im never buying seagate

The ceo of our company just ordered a 2 tb WD HD for business purposes... 900 dollar pricetag too.

Must be reliable!

WD is the way to go, i have 2 blk, 1 green, and 1 seagate, the seagate is loud, and im starting to not trust it

I guess I'll try a couple of WD's then. Thanks guys.

I have 2 x seagates, they maybe a little noisier than some HD's, but it's been reliable for me otherwise.

+1 for WD

But tbh the new Seagates are excellent too.

$900 for a 2tb HD? Assuming you're not talking server gear sounds like someone is running a scam, lol.

Maybe he means he bought three 2003FYYS server drives... Why anyone would do that, I don't know but there you go

I run all WD's in my system after having quite a few Seagates crap out on me.

WD Black as OS drive, 2 1.5tb WD Green as RAID array.

Samsung drives are also quite good.

All WDs

2x 2TB Green
1x 640 Blue
3x 640 Black
1x 300 Raptor
and a couple of older 7200 320s...

Very happy with all of them, the greens are slightly on the slow side but I use them for HD Vid warehousing so its no biggie. They are cheap and good. ($99 for the Green 2TBs).

Think the newer MBPs use Segates but I can't really comment as I only have it for about a month.

WD drives

Ingram Micro is running a scam out of their headoffice for our ceo? It's probably server gear.

Unless he bought one of these, he is being scammed or is pulling your leg. And even then... why?

Don't buy spin drives unless you're content with old technology
Go SSD drives if you can afford them.
You will not regret it. Read & Write times are incredible.
If you want to go crazy fast then get dual SSD and install a raid 0.

WD
1x black
2x Blue.

i have 3 Seagate 1TB and 1 WD 2TB and never had any problems...

It's a complete waste of money if you're using it for storage.

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I got wd blacks in my rig works well and quiet, stick with wd/seagate imo.

Sure time to time there might be a faulty one but so far I've been pretty lucky

Psb1 your right, ssd is super fast and super safe. But ssd drive as a slave for storage I just don't see the need to put that type of money into it. I got a intel ssd for my C drive works great and starts up fast but nmy nas, and other hd in the system are all wd blks. It's just more cost effective
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+1 . >$3 grand for a 1TB drive is definitely not worth it.

I've owned numerous WD and Seagate drives over the years. Never had a single failure on any of them.

I doubt it's even possible for the average user to even be able to determine the difference in reliability between any top hard drive manufacturer.

What it really comes down to is how much capacity you want, what performance you want, how much noise the drive makes and if you want one that's low power. After that, don't worry about reliability.

at that price, you mind as well buy twice or even three times amount of drives for backup. heck, even pay for cloud service

i'm still on a black + green on my desktop, but i'm recommending an ssd + green more now