western digital v.s. seagate HDDs

[kingjames488]

talking about storage drives here, so no need to suggest an SSD...

in terms of reliability for storage which do you prefer?

personally I've never had a seagate drive fail on me, and had one WD external fail soon after getting it.

how about you?

[emoticorpse]

I only use Seagate

[JohnMars78]

SSDs are storage drives, too.
I've used WD almost exclusively in the past, never had one dying. I guess you can get unlucky with either one. Brand alone doesn't mean all that much.

[plat]

I am more familiar brand-wise w/Western Digital and currently use on @7200 rpm strictly for storage. It is not used for anything else that would require faster read/write, just for retrieval of documents and backup files.

In this sense an HDD works fine. Western Digital is more "out there." You see them frequently in OEMs as a storage drive, which helps the company with name brand recognition. It's less commonplace for Seagate but I find that once you start out with a given brand, you tend to stick with it.

[Introverted Gamer]

Western Digital but if too expensive for GB/Money then next Seagate. For Reliability and Longevity, I go for their Enterprise Drives. They can be a little noisy but that don't matter.

[_I_]

both are fine for hdd
just avoid the 'green' drives, as they are slow and many have sleep timers that ignore windows settings

[kingjames488]

Originally posted by _I_:

both are fine for hdd
just avoid the 'green' drives, as they are slow and many have sleep timers that ignore windows settings

are they still sticking those in external drives?

when I built my system I went for a WD black caviar expensive AF drive and it's lasted... as I'd hope it would have for the price lol.

I'm kinda asking in general but ask kinda looking at picking up another external HDD before they still work (I hope lol).

[Castyles]

Both are good brands.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

At this point in time we've reached a point where it really doesn't matter which brand you pick. Focus more on the actual model.

For Seagate I'd stay away from Barracuda drives. Look at IronWolf series.

For WDC I'd stay away from outdated Green or Blue. Look at Black, Red, Gold.

Another to consider is HGST as their 4TB and 8TB SATA HDDs are quite reliable and budget friendly

[Jamebonds1]

Both has higher failure rate than SSDs, but not really bad. Never use Backblaze as your source to a recommended HDD.

I would've suggested HGST too.

[Introverted Gamer]

Originally posted by Jamebonds1:

I would've suggested HGST too.

Good that's also Western Digital too. They were bought out by them and phased out in 2018. Either new HGST Drives are just Renewed and Refurbish Drives that are sold in the second hand market.

[emoticorpse]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

At this point in time we've reached a point where it really doesn't matter which brand you pick. Focus more on the actual model.

For Seagate I'd stay away from Barracuda drives. Look at IronWolf series.

For WDC I'd stay away from outdated Green or Blue. Look at Black, Red, Gold.

Another to consider is HGST as their 4TB and 8TB SATA HDDs are quite reliable and budget friendly

I love Barracuda's and the 8 TB ones are pretty much the only ones I get. I did get a 12TB Ironwolf though because when I stopped at Microcenter the price was pretty good. This thing thuds like crazy. Makes me uncomfortable. Operating great, but that thudding. I will get 8 TB Barracuda's again next time.

[Jamebonds1]

Originally posted by emoticorpse:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

At this point in time we've reached a point where it really doesn't matter which brand you pick. Focus more on the actual model.

For Seagate I'd stay away from Barracuda drives. Look at IronWolf series.

For WDC I'd stay away from outdated Green or Blue. Look at Black, Red, Gold.

Another to consider is HGST as their 4TB and 8TB SATA HDDs are quite reliable and budget friendly

I love Barracuda's and the 8 TB ones are pretty much the only ones I get. I did get a 12TB Ironwolf though because when I stopped at Best Buy the price was pretty good. This thing thuds like crazy. Makes me uncomfortable. Operating great, but that thudding. I will get 8 TB Barracuda's again next time.

I remember Barracuda was not doing well, but it get better.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

wd blues have been ok 4 me
4tb for $30

[Illusion of Progress]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

At this point in time we've reached a point where it really doesn't matter which brand you pick. Focus more on the actual model.

For Seagate I'd stay away from Barracuda drives. Look at IronWolf series.

For WDC I'd stay away from outdated Green or Blue. Look at Black, Red, Gold.

Yikes. Blues are arguably the best option (within Western Digital's lineup) for lower/medium capacity storage roles. Why on Earth choose a Black or Gold that is going to cost more and just end up warmer and nosier and, for many storage roles, won't even be appreciably faster? But if I wanted something better than a Blue for storage, like for more consistent demands, I'd just go with a Red. A Black or a Gold? like... why?

I will admit that the price disparity of the Black to Blue at the 8 TB point is pretty attractive for the Black at the moment given it's about $35 more (probably because the 8 TB Blue is only offered in CMR and doesn't have a cheaper SMR offering), but I'm guessing that's down to the storage market being so volatile in recent times (read as, they're lowering pries on everything in desperation to entice sales). It's still silly to say you have to avoid Blues when they're arguably the best outright choice for low/medium storage roles (Red being better for heavier ones).

As for Barracuda's, yeah I'd personally avoid them as, unlike Western Digital, they don't offer them in both CMR and SMR variants AFAIK? Blues are SMR if the model ends in EZAZ and CMR if it ends in EZRZ or EAZZ (only the 8 TB has this code). But I think Barracudas are all SMR above 1 TB and below 8TB+, and I personally like to avoid SMR. But that's a personal opinion only. More objectively, even they are fine. SMR doesn't always have major impacts (like it won't for write few, read many purposes), and if SMR wont' be detrimental to your use case, they can be fine options as SMR offerings are very attractive in price per GB.

[Vox]

Samsung hdds were the best until Seagate bought them out.