Looking for a reliable hard drive

macfanuk · 20 Jul 2010 at 13:31

I've currently got a series of WD hard drives in my computers but after 2 have died on me in 8 months, I'm just wondering if they're not as reliable as another brand.

As such, I am looking for some new hard drives and could do with some help.

In a new PC I'm going to be building soon, the main OS will be on an SSD but I want a larger hard drive for data/music/etc and a few for backups/nas drives/etc.

Can anyone recommend the most reliable brand/model? I will be keeping backups of backups in future but would still appreciate reliability.

Thanks in advance.

adrichardson81 · 20 Jul 2010 at 13:56

Samsung F3. Very impressed with mine.

macfanuk · 20 Jul 2010 at 14:02

adrichardson81 said:
Samsung F3. Very impressed with mine.

Thanks, that's what I was thinking of getting. I was just wondering if WD Caviar Blacks would be better/more reliable.

Ziggy4 · 20 Jul 2010 at 16:17

Just had an F3 die on me last week. Had two of those and an F1 and this is the first time a HDD has failed on me for a very long time. Not saying the F3 is an unreliable drive but it's more a matter of (bad) luck I think. Both of the two drives you mention have a good reputation. My own Caviar Black has been trouble free and I switched to this to replace an F3 as my main backup drive. It also comes with a 5 year warranty. It's my sixth WD drive over the past couple of years and none have failed or developed any minor faults.