i am now interested to buy 5tb x 2 drives for all my steam and movies backup i cannot decide what brand to go for?

suvo30

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i have shortlisted both western digital and seagate but cannot make up my mind which brand of hard drive is more future safe i am looking to buy portable 5 tb hard drives can anyone help me choose between western digital or seagate 5 tb , thanks in advance .
 
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I'd go with Seagate, I've personally just had better reliability with them. WD used to be really really good aswell, however a few years ago their drive quality wasn't great at all. I don't know if they've improved at all, but to be safe, I'd go with Seagate.

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Flip a coin. Really.
At an individual drive basis, there is no real difference.

Know this...all drives die eventually.
How to protect against that? A good automated backup routine.