Confused about HDD manufacturers..

Guest · Apr 3, 2014

Who are the best internal HDD manufacturers around the world providing lesser HDD failure problems, durability and reliability?

manofchalk · Apr 3, 2014

Western Digital and Seagate are the big players on the HDD space. Which one is better swings depending on which report your looking at and who was unlucky enough to have their particular branded drive fail on them. Either one would do fine.

rolli59 · Apr 3, 2014

Seagate and Western Digital both have a great track record. Some people will argue one is better than the other but I buy from either based on price and features.

ram1009 · Apr 3, 2014

I've been using WD exclusively for almost 20 years and never lost data.

burdenbound · Apr 3, 2014

Go western digital or hitachi http://www.pcworld.com/article/2089464/three-year-27-000-drive-study-reveals-the-most-reliable-hard-drive-makers.html I have run into several issues with seagate in the past.

cdrkf · Apr 3, 2014

If you want a good HDD then I agree with the above. If we're talking SSD drives it's got to be either Crucial or Samsung (as both actually manufacture the memory chips rather than just package it).

As for reliability- if your looking at traditional HDD drives you can pick up various 'enterprise' class drives quite cheaply now and they are recommended for 24 / 7 use and for important data storage as they are tested for long term stability (e.g. if you want to set up a file server or nas).

manofchalk · Apr 3, 2014

burdenbound :

Be careful looking at the Backblaze report that PcWorld article is citing, it has more then a few problems with it.
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/6028/dispelling-backblaze-s-hdd-reliability-myth-the-real-story-covered/index.html

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