WD BLue or the New Seagate Barracuda?

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Please [strike]let[/strike] help me decide what would be better in terms of performance and reliability.
Is it the WD Blue or the newer Seagate barracuda.
 
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@Phillip,
Well... not quite... ;)

Our own and independent research on current hard drive series do not show significant differences in drive reliability. Nowadays objectively all major hard drive manufacturers are working hard to optimize performance as well as reliability with each new generation of drives. Obviously each physical drive will fail at some point - however, if the right drive type is used in each scenario, modern hard drives usually last much longer than their minimum life time expectancy.

@Kristian:
Much more important than the decision on the brand is to pick the right drive for the right purpose: there are roughly three main types of hard drives: Desktop & Gaming (current...
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My opinion? -- WD every time as regards reliability -- no contest.

Performance-wise I don't know, reliability is more important to me, and on that score, I've had nothing but trouble with Seagate ones, every one I've bought has packed up within two years. I deliberately avoid that brand now.

Compare that with the WD drives I've bought - - - I've had four of them for over 6 years & they're all still in use every day.
I'd say that speaks for itself.
 
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@Phillip,
Well... not quite... ;)

Our own and independent research on current hard drive series do not show significant differences in drive reliability. Nowadays objectively all major hard drive manufacturers are working hard to optimize performance as well as reliability with each new generation of drives. Obviously each physical drive will fail at some point - however, if the right drive type is used in each scenario, modern hard drives usually last much longer than their minimum life time expectancy.

@Kristian:
Much more important than the decision on the brand is to pick the right drive for the right purpose: there are roughly three main types of hard drives: Desktop & Gaming (current Seagate lineup: BarraCuda), NAS (current Seagate lineup: IronWolf), and Surveillance (current Seagate lineup: SkyHawk). They all connect in the same way, but were engineered with different uses in mind. For example, IronWolf drives are rated for 24x7 use and optimized for NAS enclosures and extra vibration protection, so they have a lot of firmware optimizations and extras that make them costly for a typical desktop user or gamer.

Enjoy your new drive - whichever brand you end up with!
 
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To seagate_surfer:

My opinions are based on my personal experiences with Seagate drives, which have not been positive.

My experience with WD drives could not be more different.

I therefore stand by what I said in my previous post.

"Much more important than the decision on the brand is to pick the right drive for the right purpose"

Baloney. Brand choice comes first, then pick the right one for the job from the range that brand has to offer.

However, you being a Seagate rep, your comments are to be expected. I'd no doubt do the same if I was a company rep.
 
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We are not posting in forums to argue and / or promote our products - that is part of our sales department. The purpose is to be active to support and provide information that users might like and might find useful.

In regards to what you said, it's interesting to note that most (tech) people do not share your opinion on the order of choice! Hard drive / vendor bashing obviously ALWAYS occurs if someone has a bad experience with a specific brand - you will see the same type of comments for Seagate, WD or any other major hard drive manufacturer in any forum

(1) simply because any physical drives fails at some point and
(2) there is a tendency to rather publicly vent than praise

All that is entirely understandable and all we can say is that objectively modern drive series from any major manufacturer do not differ in drive reliability and drives are much more likely to fail if the wrong drive is used for the projected environment or usage behavior!

Since being active in forums, we noticed that many regular users are not even aware of the fact that drives are produced differently in regards to the specific purpose (e.g. NAS, Surveillance, Desktop) and some users -to give just one example- tend to buy the cheapest (desktop) drive and put it in a NAS. We hope to contribute to best practices to not do such things to avoid drive issues and improve HDD life time and performance in each environment.
 
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I picked a Seagate Barracuda as I've seen good reviews about the new version of it. I have both WD blue and the old Barracuda and they are still in good shape.
The new sticker of barracuda really caught my attention in the first place haha. Thanks!
 
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