Western Digital vs Seagate

[BlazGr]

Hello and Hi.
Im building my first computer and I cant decide which companys hard drives are better, Seagates or WDs? Please help.
In my computer there will be 500GB hard drive and a 275 GB SSD which I have already decided. So which one do you suggest?

 

[alexoiu]

Hi, I use WD.

 

[Rookie_MIB]

Seagate had some issues a while back, but their reliability has come back up quite well. I would suggest perusing Backblaze's quarterly reliability report to help your decision. They have a ton of drives that they do failure reports on if/when they go down. This gives you a pretty good idea of what a 'worst case' situation would be like (as in - high abuse) - so you would likely have a better experience.

That being said, I have several Seagate and Western Digital drives (15 assorted drives) which are on 24/7 - they're both pretty solid. I'm not sure why you're going to get a 500gb drive though, most new drives are usually 1TB or higher.

Here's the backblaze stats:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q1-2017/

 

[SoggyTissue]

seagate has a 200 TBW / 560 r + 290 w
western digital has a 100 TBW / 540 r + 520 w
r = read / w = write.
tbw is terabyte write lifespan garantee before possible faults.

so you sacrifice write speed for double the life with seagate.

but to put it into perspective: 100 TBW means you could write 50 GB a day for 20,000 days to kill it. (100TB = 1,000,000 GB. 1000000/50 = 20000)
this calculation is given if you write to the entire drive. normally (if you dont smartplace defrag and i know most ssd users dont smart defrag) you write to half your drive (as generally half is taken by windows and game files that dont re-write). so you can half this figure for real life use expectancy. still 10,000 days at 50GB a day .... thats 27 years?

mmm i might need to go back to school, i dont think my maths adds up.

 

[Isokolon]

While Seagate had some problems with one of their series right now they're on par.

From my experience, it's down to luck.
Your drive can run for 10 years or crash within the first 3 months regardless of brand.

 

[gdmaclew]

Some people prefer Seagate...some prefer WD, either from personal experience or published stats.
I have been using WD for 25 years now - one failure.
It's true about luck...you just never know.
Either way, good backups are every bit as important as your selection of hard drive.