Western Digital SSHD or Seagate SSHD?

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Hey guys! So I'm thinking of getting another 1TB of storage for my computer for a backup drive as my 1TB hard drive I have now(Western Digital Blue Caviar) is over 600GB used and I want to backup my computer so I know my computer is safe and all. I've come across the SSHD and frankly I feel dumb that I didn't get the SSHD in the first place for a like another 20 or so. Anyways the big question is... Western Digital Blue SSHD or the Seagate SSHD??

Now I've put some thought into it and I've come across some information about each thing.
1. Western digital provides and easy migration system between hard drives to transfer it all between the drives and all but requires at least one WD hard drive to start
2. People and statistics state that seagate is horrible as they tend to fail more than WD does.
3. On the sea gate website it says 5 times faster than a 7500rpm and on the western digital it says 5 times faster than a 5300rpm and I was like wait.... Is that a typo??? Surely I know which is faster which is what I want how ever I feel like it's a typo or something as they seem to have the same specs.

Conclusion: western digital seems more reliable and easier to transfer my current files over to my SSHD and use my older 1TB as the backup and seems to be slower and costs a bit more.

Seagate seems less reliable and doesn't seem to have a easy migration system like WD, seems faster, has more reviews on Amazon, and costs less.

WHAT DO I BUY?? I want easiest and fastest really. Was the WD site wrong about the fast thing? (Note both companies had the "*" by it and both said "*As measured by PCMark Vantage storage benchmarking software."
 
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The Seagate says it's 10x faster than a traditional HDD, but that is actually a 5400rpm HDD they are comparing it to. Also, SSHD's are faster then a 7200rpm HDD...for things that you use often and are not primarily using the HDD portion. The reason I bring this up is that the new SSHD's use a 5400rpm HDD (from both companies) and when using the HDD, it is noticeably slower than a 7200rpm HDD.
I have had 3 Seagate SSHD's now, 2 were 500gb that had 8gb SSD and 7200rpm HDD portions, the other a 1tb that was 8gb SSD with 5400rpm HDD portion. I use one of the 500's in my desktop and it's been great, the other 500gb was in my laptop but had some issues so i replaced it with the 1tb SSHD. The 1tb SSHD was noticeable slower in the programs I...
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Actually I've heard that Seagate is more reliable than Western Digital overall, so I'm not sure where you got that information from. But anyway both companies make extremely good drives and technology. Both are fast, both are reliable and both companies make great technology.

If Seagate is cheaper then personally I would go with Seagate. I have both a 500GB WD and 2TB Seagate drive in my PC and both are fast. However, since the Seagate drive is newer than my WD the Seagate drive is much faster.
 
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Ok then, it does appear that Seagate has a higher fail rate but I'm sure your drive wouldn't have an issue. Anyway that being said, if you want the most reliable I would suggest getting a WD Black or something similar. Seagate drives are still a great alternative though and you cannot believe what everybody says about a certain company.
 
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The Seagate says it's 10x faster than a traditional HDD, but that is actually a 5400rpm HDD they are comparing it to. Also, SSHD's are faster then a 7200rpm HDD...for things that you use often and are not primarily using the HDD portion. The reason I bring this up is that the new SSHD's use a 5400rpm HDD (from both companies) and when using the HDD, it is noticeably slower than a 7200rpm HDD.
I have had 3 Seagate SSHD's now, 2 were 500gb that had 8gb SSD and 7200rpm HDD portions, the other a 1tb that was 8gb SSD with 5400rpm HDD portion. I use one of the 500's in my desktop and it's been great, the other 500gb was in my laptop but had some issues so i replaced it with the 1tb SSHD. The 1tb SSHD was noticeable slower in the programs I use as they use the HDD a lot and in fact I just replaced it with a traditional 7200rpm HDD, and everything is working faster.

TLDR; If the HDD portion of the SSHD is 7200rpm, it's a great drive. Avoid the 5400rpm ones. As for brands, I've had more Seagate drives fail than WD ones, but neither have had a horrible failure rate considering all the drives I've used. I just bought a 5tb external HDD backup drive from Seagate.
 
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hmm..Martell's right..BUT!!?? it's also about your usage of the drive..if you're just doing regular stuff..get the Seagate SSHD if you're getting 7200rpm..the good thing about the SSHDs from Toshiba & Seagate is that they're ready to go out of the box..(no firmware/software needed)..WD, for the most part, doesn't require anything..there are 3 drives that DO require extra software..(i have a WD10S12X)..once i put in the WD Boost?? the drive was flying..(& i'm using a wack laptop)..remember..the 8Gbs & the 16GBs are only Caches..you can't use them..the WD Black2 CAN be used..it's an SSD (120GB) & an HDD (1TB) built on one drive..so again..if you're doing bsaic stuff..get the SSHD drive..if you're doing editing (video, gaming, or music)..then get a traditional HDD with a 7200rpm..&?? at least a 16MB buffer..if you have a question..hit me back..Peace..& God bless you & yours..

A-Weapons..South Bronx, NYC..
 
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