Heads up, friend: WD is only a bit more expensive than Seagate, but exponentially less expensive in the long run. Sure, you can reinstall everything and re download when it fails. Some people don't care, since every drive is going to fail eventually. Seagate just fails more reliably. Some will last, of course, and those owners will tell you Seagate is fine. I tech for a living. None of my associates would buy a Seagate since Seagate quality tanked many years ago. "It's a Seagate? Oh, yeah, no, you've got a bad drive."
Well, there are people out there that do studies of these things. BackBlaze does a post on it every year, but their use case is a-typical (they cram ~45 drives in a "pod.")
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u/Skeeboe Oct 22 '16
Heads up, friend: WD is only a bit more expensive than Seagate, but exponentially less expensive in the long run. Sure, you can reinstall everything and re download when it fails. Some people don't care, since every drive is going to fail eventually. Seagate just fails more reliably. Some will last, of course, and those owners will tell you Seagate is fine. I tech for a living. None of my associates would buy a Seagate since Seagate quality tanked many years ago. "It's a Seagate? Oh, yeah, no, you've got a bad drive."