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It may be due to some bad luck and selection bias, but I‘d recommend against physical HDD from WD, too. As far as I can remember, the only physical drives I ow
by maverwa 3y ago
It may be due to some bad luck and selection bias, but I‘d recommend against physical HDD from WD, too.
As far as I can remember, the only physical drives I owned that died where WD drives. Granted, they where WD Green, an especially cursed series, but I‘ve not bought another WD product since.
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoI haven’t had any such problems across various WD drives. They have marketing shenanigans (what with the Red/Red Plus thing) but the drives themselves seem to be solid in my experience (haven’t tried any of their SSDs though). I feel like back in the day, it was actually Seagate who had the bad reputation, but when recently looking at the Backblaze stats, it seemed that all three remaining brands (WD, Seagate and Toshiba) are solid.
- philsnow 3y agoIt depends how far back your "back in the day" is.. for me, the meme bad hard drive manufacturer was IBM with their Deathstar^W Deskstar drives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_failures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_fa...