Whats is your favourite HDD or SSD manufacturer? Do you think certain ones are better for reliability or peformance?
Im looking to upgrade my old 250GB Hard drive to a 500GB one. Im just after one for the best reliability and daily use. Any recommendations would be good. Is the WD 500GB Blue a good bet for me?
I like my Western Digital blue. Its fast for a Hdd and hasn't had any errors yet after a couple months of use. Samsung and Kingston are probably the best ssd makers. :)
I don't think you can really go wrong with a seagate barracuda or a WD blue, where I live they are priced identically at all capacities, too. There are higher performing drives, but these tend to be perfectly fine for a typical home build (I'm using a seagate barracuda 2TB in conjunction with my samsung SSD).
Seagate used to be considered the best, now I am not so sure. I don't trust any HDD entirely, as you should always expect them to break. If WD and Seagate are priced similarly, I grab the WD.
But for regular hard-drives my money is on WD RE series I have 2x 500GB, and 2x 1TB, each in a RAID 1 setup. And they have been running 24/7 for some years now.
I like that WD has a 5 year warranty on their HDD's ( I don't know if other companies has the same warranty).
I have had one of the 1TB, fail after 3½ years, and the RMA directly to WD was quick and easy, a replacement drive was quickly dispatched from WD.
They had an Advance Replacement, where you for a smallish fee ( I don't remember how much, it was back in 2010, but it was not a large fee) where they would send the replacement drive before they received the defective drive.
I have mainly used, WD HDD's in the computers (laptops & stationary computers) in our household, and have only had the 1 TB HDD fail in the server. Most, if not all, of these WD drives are more than 3 years old. I am not aware if WD has some series of bad HDD's, if they have, I have steered clear of them :)
please stop using the backblaze article, and tables, since it was released they have received a lot of backlash for it. it's not a true representation of drive failure rates.
Thanks for the input guys. Im not so sure about the graph showing failue rates, I thought seagate were quite reliable. And Im probably going to go for a 1TB now as its only a bit more expensive compared to the 500GB.
I thought I was a bit biased, but seeing as many people like the same drives as me.
Samsung/WD all day. I haven't had many problems with them yet.
I've had some drive failures with Hitachi and Toshiba hard drives, and a Crucial M4 SSD that liked to BSOD windows after 5000 hours of power on hours, (Fixed with a firmware update, and still running today). Still a bit biased against Crucial though. :P
I don't trust any HDD manufacturer, but I've had mixed results from both, but I'm more likely to buy Western Digital than Seagate or Hitachi.
I had 1 Seagate External 4TB just stop working one day for no reason, and I had two WD Greens fail on me, but I think that was more my fault since I ran them in a two-bay enclosure in JBOD and I may have accidently kicked them over with my foot a couple times....*oops*
To stop this from ever happening again I decided I would only buy prosumer or enterprise gear from both of them. I have a 1TB WD RE4 that is used as my game disk and I'm planning on purchasing WD Reds in the future unless there is a significant reason for me to go for Seagate NAS drives.
My preference for HDD has always been Western Digital, never had one fail. Seagate makes good HDD to but i personally have had some bad luck with them. I have a 1.5tb Seagate Barracuda thats starting to fail and i had a 250gb and 5020gb fail in the past. As for SSD's id just buy whatever is the best deal from Samsung, crucial, Intel or Corsair. I think 840 evo pros and Intel 1500 pro series are the most reliable and generally the fastest.