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Hard Drive Preferences Western Digital Or Has Seagate Made Enough Improvements?

Greg M. Ray

•Apr 20, 2018

I have searched forums here, last noted article was August 2016 suggesting Western Digital as a better choice. Does this still hold true as Seagate has made some improvements? I'm upgrading machine that is 8yrs old. I believe it still has 1 or 2 original Seagate drives, replaced the others with WD, during flood at time with Seagate. So do I wait till they fail or start out new? I have 5 storage drives and one for OS.

Only feature I see and read about was Skyhawk drives have less vibration, whereas mine are stacked together. So do I assume this plays an important role?

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Undisclosed Integrator #1

•Apr 20, 2018

I think it comes down to personnel preference. I have been burned by a Seagate BarraCuda HDD Failure in the past and haven't felt like giving them a second chance. However there is no real logic applied to that decision... It is just feelings.

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Frank Farmilette

•Apr 20, 2018

A2 Systems

I have found that Backblaze's HDD Failure Rate Analysis to be a helpful tool when analyzing the dependability / quality offered by different manufactures.

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