Two hard drives, same price. Which would you get?

[ka jowct]

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.