Western Digital or Seagate Hard Drive?

[Lunarcy]

I want to get a 2TB HDD and I've heard that Seagate often break. Is this true? And I might want a SSHD instead but only Seagate make them?

 

[scout_03]

you could get a 512 gig ssd and a 1tb black from wd .

 

[USAFRet]

I want to get a 2TB HDD and I've heard that Seagate often break. Is this true? And I might want a SSHD instead but only Seagate make them?

No and no.
For the vast majority of models, there is very little difference between Seagate or WD.

SSHD?
Toshiba:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAERP69M9302

WD:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7U13CG3899

(I personally would not buy an SSHD, though)

 

[Dugimodo]

Seagate had a firmware problem a few years ago and it really hurt their reputation but as far as I know they have been fine ever since. Personally I would (and have) happily buy either brand and not worry about it. For example I have 2 x 4TB WD red drives in my NAS and 2 x 4TB Seagate green drives in my PC that I back the NAS up to. They have all been fine for approx 2 years now.

The SSHD is a great option if you can only have one drive and can't afford an SSD large enough for your needs. They do boot almost as fast as an SSD. However they are largely pointless as a data disk where files are accessed too randomly for the SSD cache to really help and you might as well buy a cheaper conventional drive.

As scout_03 mentioned a separate SSD and HDD drive combo is still the better option from a performance standpoint, the SSHD is a compromise that works well in single disk PCs.

 

[topheron]

Buy whatever is cheapest that meets your requirements. I'm more familiar with Western Digital, so for my NAS I use their red line. For my digital video recorder I use their purple line, for slow archive storage I use the green labeled drives, and for my desktop I use the 7200 or 10,000 RPM drives...

Oh who's kidding.

I buy whatever is cheapest and then complain about it.

I've replaced hundreds of WD's, and probably a hundred Seagate hard drives. I personally buy WD's most of the time because they generally are cheaper.

My plan right now is to buy a 4tb internal hard drive for my desktop and buy at the same time a 4tb External. Back up the internal periodically to the external.



Multiple backups are far more important than trying to figure out which brand of hard drive is marginally more longer lasting. They all fail.

 

[Lunarcy]

you could get a 512 gig ssd and a 1tb black from wd .

Seagate had a firmware problem a few years ago and it really hurt their reputation but as far as I know they have been fine ever since. Personally I would (and have) happily buy either brand and not worry about it. For example I have 2 x 4TB WD red drives in my NAS and 2 x 4TB Seagate green drives in my PC that I back the NAS up to. They have all been fine for approx 2 years now.

The SSHD is a great option if you can only have one drive and can't afford an SSD large enough for your needs. They do boot almost as fast as an SSD. However they are largely pointless as a data disk where files are accessed too randomly for the SSD cache to really help and you might as well buy a cheaper conventional drive.

As scout_03 mentioned a separate SSD and HDD drive combo is still the better option from a performance standpoint, the SSHD is a compromise that works well in single disk PCs.

Well I already have a 250GB M.2 SSD and a 2TB WD HDD and I want a newer hard drive (As I am running out of space). I am disappointed by the HDD speeds as I store a lot of games on there so I would move over the current games on my HDD to the SSHD and use my HDD as extra/backup.

 

[USAFRet]

Multiple backups are far more important than trying to figure out which brand of hard drive is marginally more longer lasting. They all fail.

^^^^^
Exactly this.

ALL drives die eventually. 5 years or 5 years, 6 months.....makes zero difference.

 

[USAFRet]

Well I already have a 250GB M.2 SSD and a 2TB WD HDD and I want a newer hard drive (As I am running out of space). I am disappointed by the HDD speeds as I store a lot of games on there so I would move over the current games on my HDD to the SSHD and use my HDD as extra/backup.

For games, an SSHD probably won't make any visible difference.
Zero difference in FPS in the gameplay.