HGST/Toshiba hard drive recommendation

[drthrd]

I need a new hard drive. It has been awhile since I bought a internal drive, so I looked around to see which brand is the most reliable. I looked at the Backblaze site. Not sure how accurate or reliable they are but they say HGST and Toshiba have the least fail rates. I looked around here and seen where people say Toshiba drives are HGST and that both brands are good. Which one to get though? Some people say get the enterprise drives because they are meant to run 24/7. There is N300 and X300 etc.. from Toshiba. Ultrastar and Ultrastar 7K6000 etc.. from HGST. Which one would you recommend?

 

[dudeman509]

I have a 3 TB DT01AC that was essentially a rebranded Hitachi drive. Been rock-solid reliable going on 2 or 3 years now, and it's pretty quick for a platter drive. Can get noisy, though.

The X300 will probably be just fine for a normal consumer desktop. As with any hard drive, always keep a backup somewhere else.

Had nothing but good luck with older Hitachi laptop drives. I ran a 320 pretty much continuously for 4 years in one years ago and it still shows 100% health.

 

[madmatt30]

I solely use the tosh DT drives now , been great for me & the 3/4tb models are far cheaper than other manufacturers

 

[shrapnel_indie]

Backblaze's study has been examine and re-examined and found not to be very scientific, so the results are considered inaccurate. Also time has passed since that study and new models have came on the market.

I myself prefer the HGST drives as they have proven to me to be pretty reliable. So has WD for that matter (current Hitachi HDDs are actually WD manufactured as WD owns them now.) Toshiba drives seem pretty decent, and Seagate seems to be just okay (although BackBlaze gave them the worst rating.), in my personal experience. However, Toshiba does seem to have a better price per TB than many others, and I've been thinking about getting one for an upgrade for a 5-6 year old HGST drive.

For price alone though , I'd suggest the Toshiba HDDs.