2 Seagate drives dead! Recommend an alternative?

Monkeyspaz5000

Monkeyspaz5000

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Hey..

I've just had my second 2TB Seagate drive die within about 2 months of each other!! Both just out of warranty!!

When the first died I bought the same replacement. Now that a second has died I'm now looking to buy again, but curious if there's a better/more reliable drive? - or was this simply bad luck? :(
 
Now that the consumer harddrive side of Hitachi have been taken over by Toshiba, I use Toshiba harddrives without problems.
 
Idk what I'd do if I had to buy a new HDD today,from what I've seen they all seem a pile of poo,I'd only have faith in Samsung drives,used
 
I use WD blacks. Three 500gb going strong in raid 5 since 2009. Reds not available back then.
 
Shame about Seagate I used to be a big fan but from the 7200.11s onwards reliability seems to have jumped off a cliff.

WDs are ok but nothing special on the reliability side pretty average, not sure what Toshiba are like for HDDs these days.

EDIT: Looks like Toshiba/Hitachi have the lowest failure rates since 2011. I'd forgotten Samsung's HDD business is now spun off to Seagate.
 
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I tend to buy a 2TB Toshiba internal drive and a 2TB Seagate external at the same time these days, the external for backup. Costs roughly the same price as a single 2TB WD black. As my drives are purely for storage there's no way i'd buy a WD black when i can get 2 drives for the same price.

I still have a couple of 2TB seagate internals that are working fine too, i only avoid them now because of other people's failure rates.
 
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