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Two hard drives, same price. Which would you get? - AllGold - 11-22-2017
Obviously, the same capacity, too. Same warranty.
Western Digital everyday vs Toshiba?
As an aside, I had one of my internal drives begin to fail and start throwing SMART errors. So I'm thinking I should be looking at replacing some of my old hard drives that have a ton of power-on hours.
Re: Two hard drives, same price. Which would you get? - anonymouse1 - 11-22-2017
WD
Re: Two hard drives, same price. Which would you get? - Onamuji - 11-22-2017
What "color" Western Digital?
I'd take almost anything over one of their Blue or Green drives.
Re: Two hard drives, same price. Which would you get? - AllGold - 11-22-2017
The WD "Everyday" drive doesn't have a color but I'm pretty sure it's a Green.
Knock on wood, the WD Green drives have been rock solid for me for years (the failing drive is not WD).
Re: Two hard drives, same price. Which would you get? - DeusxMac - 11-22-2017
I’ve had several external Toshibas (2.5” form factor) that have outlasted their enclosure/controller-interface.
Re: Two hard drives, same price. Which would you get? - sekker - 11-22-2017
If this is for an internal boot drive, my vote is neither.
Get an SSD.
Re: Two hard drives, same price. Which would you get? - ka jowct - 11-22-2017
If they are externals, neither. Get a bare drive and put it in a non-crappy enclosure or use it with a dock.
I’ve been getting Toshibas for the past couple of years, since HGST has evidently stopped making the non-NAS, non-enterprise drives that I used to buy. All of those older HGSTs are still working beautifully. The Toshibas so far have also been fine. But I’d never buy one of their externals.
I pried apart a Seagate external enclosure last night. What a piece of crap, just like the last Seagate enclosure I had to open. The drive is probably dead also. I haven’t had time to set up a full scan.
Re: Two hard drives, same price. Which would you get? - gabester - 11-22-2017
Check the latest Backblaze drive reliability report!
Generally, no one seems to have much good to say about WD, I'd go with the Toshiba.
Re: Two hard drives, same price. Which would you get? - WHiiP - 11-22-2017
:agree:
Toshiba.
Re: Two hard drives, same price. Which would you get? - mikebw - 11-22-2017
Toshiba.