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I've bought around like 9 WD HDDs so far, passports, books, internal SATA ones, Red NAS ones, and all of them are either still running or never outright failed.
by moffkalast 4y ago
I've bought around like 9 WD HDDs so far, passports, books, internal SATA ones, Red NAS ones, and all of them are either still running or never outright failed. Meanwhile 2 of the 3 Seagate HDDs I had failed in a way that resulted in data loss ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Needless to say I only buy WD if I ever still need an HDD. Wouldn't ever use their cloud though.
- can16358p 4y agoYup this. As pure hard drives, they are rock solid. Any other WD services (especially cloud): stay away from them as if they are radioactive.
- Latty 4y agoLooking at Backblaze's stats, it's true WD are a little better off, but not by a huge amount. If you care about a single drive dying, then yeah, buy WD I guess, but at the same time, I can't imagine a sane case to rely on any single drive not failing. I'd always have redundancy if I am talking spinning disk (and of course backups regardless), because the reality is no matter who makes it, eventually it'll die, and none of them can guarantee anything.