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Which one of these two storage brands are the best? Im looking at the 1tb 7200 rpm hdd by the way

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I've always been a seagate guy

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Well, as long as none of them do the dumb thing of parking the heads every few minutes, any brand will do just fine.

I have a 3TB Seagate one and a 500GB WD green one, both are working fine.

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Which one of these two storage brands are the best? Im looking at the 1tb 7200 rpm hdd by the way

 

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HGST.

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I won't touch seagate at all, as for wd it depends on the drive, black yes, blue is fine, no to green, and red I'm unsure about as I don't know much about them

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not much difference really, I'd take either WD blue or Seagate Barracuda (whatever's just a $5 difference from what I've seen)

 

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not much difference really, I'd take either WD blue or Seagate Barracuda (whatever's just a $5 difference from what I've seen)

 

I'd lump all these threads into one though, I can see where this is going.

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I've been using WD and haven't really had any problems. Just curious though. Does anyone have experience with Toshiba HDDs? Just saw them at MicroCenter today and was surprised at how cheap they were.

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Well, as long as none of them do the dumb thing of parking the heads every few minutes, any brand will do just fine.

I have a 3TB Seagate one and a 500GB WD green one, both are working fine.

Normally I would have my drives spin down after 30 minutes of inactivity, but Windows 10 would spin them up and then spin them down immediately.

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People say Seagate is bad, but I;ve had several drives from them and non have failed or lost data. I have had Toshiba drives and they were meh, one was complete crap. People seem to recommend WD, but I've only had like one or two drives from them, both were fine. Honestly I think for anything less than 1-2TB you should go with Seagate, and leave the 3TB and up to WD.

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Honestly I think for anything less than 1-2TB you should go with Seagate, and leave the 3TB and up to WD.

Any particular reason?

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Normally I would have my drives spin down after 30 minutes of inactivity, but Windows 10 would spin them up and then spin them down immediately.

Well, I normally check the SMART values, and my green drive used to do that even when I had that turned off in windows, my Seagate one also did that and I had to install a program called KeepAlive HD, because the load/unload cycles were going up quite fast, my WD drive no longer does that because I disabled its damn wdidle3 thingie.

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Any particular reason?

People seem to trust WD at higher capacities. I like Seagate but if what people say is true, then I wouldn't get very high capacity drives from them. But from my experience all of my drives under 1TB have never failed (the Seagate ones) so I can recommend those.

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People seem to trust WD at higher capacities. I like Seagate but if what people say is true, then I wouldn't get very high capacity drives from them. But from my experience all of my drives under 1TB have never failed (the Seagate ones) so I can recommend those.

I've had 6 WD Blue drives and one Black Scorpio drive that were less than 2TB(in fact, highest capacity I've had is 1TB) and none of them failed.

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I've had 6 WD Blue drives and one Black Scorpio drive that were less than 2TB(in fact, highest capacity I've had is 1TB) and none of them failed.

Hmm... Well I've only had my hands on two WD Green drives. I'm just going off of what I hear, and what I hear is that WD drives are more reliable. But I can also throw in my personal experience (with Seagate), so I guess that's my reasoning, if that makes sense.

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seagate drives nowadays are fine all purpose drives but western digital produces better drives for specific usages (gaming, nas, etc.)

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Id personally get a WD Blue drive.

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Which one of these two storage brands are the best? Im looking at the 1tb 7200 rpm hdd by the way

 

Hey there Paytend01,
 
It really depends on what you particularly need the drive for. WD Blue is a great everyday drive that can handle some heavier tasks. It works good, relatively quiet and is pretty reliable. 
For more performance and durability I would go for WD Black. Even though it is a bit more costly, it is designed for better performance and longer and heavier workloads. :) Here's a bit info on it too: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=K7Me4o
 
Do have in mind that HDD are mechanical units after all and failures do happen for one reason or another. It is always recommended to keep a backup of your important data on different storage drives regardless of the brand. :)
 
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