Which HDD should I buy?

[Alexander Paul]

Hi guys. I'm gonna be replacing my dead 2Tb Seagate HDD anytime soon and I could use some opinions.

Which one would be better to buy, the Seagate 2Tb Hybrid SSHD or WD 2Tb Black?

And oh, main purpose is gaming and programming. And if you could suggest any other HDD in this range that you think is much better, please do! Thanks.

 

[Colif]

I would get a Western Digital drive, only had one of them die in about 15 years so that would be my choice. Seagate having a bad patch, I am hoping my drive survives it

 

[Alexander Paul]

15 years?! Wow, wish my dead hdd here was able to reach atleast half of that. Anyway, thanks for your response!

 

[Isokolon]

yeah on the other hand my Seagate drive lasts for 5 years now. it's not like they're all bad.

anyway, SSHD sounds good on paper but only the flash storage is faster and that's just 8GB on the 1TB (so I guess 16-20GB for the 2 TB)
for the other data the WD Black is faster

 

[Colif]

The 15 years wasn't one drive.. i should have made it clear. But as I had 3 IBM drives die in 6 months, i thought it was a good break from hdd deaths, I had 5 WD drives in that time, but only one of them ran for more than 9 years without being replaced, and it was a storage drive so had it easy, like my Seagate is now. Hardly got any activity in that time. Now my ssd takes all the work and Seagate gets to sleep most days.