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What is your most Fav HDD/SSD brand and why. Me its WD but I'm warming up to Samsung SSDs'. 

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Samsung for SSD's Most Certainly, I use WD for my NAS & Hitachi and Toshiba HDDs for my main storage drives in my computers.

Main Machine:  16 inch MacBook Pro (2021), Apple M1 Pro (10 CPU, 16 GPU Core), 512GB SDD, 16GB RAM

Gaming Machine:  Acer Nitro 5, Core i7 10750H, RTX 3060 (L) 6GB, 1TB SSD (Boot), 2TB SSD (Storage), 32GB DDR4 RAM

Other Tech: iPhone 15 Pro Max, Series 6 Apple Watch (LTE), AirPods Max, PS4, Nintendo Switch, PS3, Xbox 360

Network Gear:  TP Link Gigabit 24 Port Switch, TP-Link Deco M4 Mesh Wi-Fi, M1 MacMini File & Media Server with 8TB of RAID 1 Storage

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SSD = Samsung
HDD = Western Digital

"Solus" (2015) - CPU: i7-4790k | GPU: MSI GTX 970 | Mobo: Asus Z97-A | Ram: 16GB (2x8) G.Skill Ripjaws X Series | PSU: EVGA G2 750W 80+ Gold | Case: Fractal Design Define R4

Next Build: "Tyrion" (TBA)

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SanDisk for SSDs by a long way. If I hadn't had so many non-SSD Samsung failures, I'd give them a shot.

Most hard drives are interchangeable, my PCs have mixes of Seagate, WD, Toshibas and Hitachis. Anything but Samsung basically.

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Samsung for SSD and WD for HDDs. Never had an issue for either brand.

Currently have an 850 EVO and WD Black. No complaints about the 850 EVO and the Black is super fast, if slightly loud.

Project White Lightning (My ITX Gaming PC): Core i5-4690K | CRYORIG H5 Ultimate | ASUS Maximus VII Impact | HyperX Savage 2x8GB DDR3 | Samsung 850 EVO 250GB | WD Black 1TB | Sapphire RX 480 8GB NITRO+ OC | Phanteks Enthoo EVOLV ITX | Corsair AX760 | LG 29UM67 | CM Storm Quickfire Ultimate | Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum | HyperX Cloud II | Logitech Z333

Benchmark Results: 3DMark Firestrike: 10,528 | SteamVR VR Ready (avg. quality 7.1) | VRMark 7,004 (VR Ready)

 

Other systems I've built:

Core i3-6100 | CM Hyper 212 EVO | MSI H110M ECO | Corsair Vengeance LPX 1x8GB DDR4  | ADATA SP550 120GB | Seagate 500GB | EVGA ACX 2.0 GTX 1050 Ti | Fractal Design Core 1500 | Corsair CX450M

Core i5-4590 | Intel Stock Cooler | Gigabyte GA-H97N-WIFI | HyperX Savage 2x4GB DDR3 | Seagate 500GB | Intel Integrated HD Graphics | Fractal Design Arc Mini R2 | be quiet! Pure Power L8 350W

 

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Samsung and WD

Archangel (Desktop) CPU: i5 4590 GPU:Asus R9 280  3GB RAM:HyperX Beast 2x4GBPSU:SeaSonic S12G 750W Mobo:GA-H97m-HD3 Case:CM Silencio 650 Storage:1 TB WD Red
Celestial (Laptop 1) CPU:i7 4720HQ GPU:GTX 860M 4GB RAM:2x4GB SK Hynix DDR3Storage: 250GB 850 EVO Model:Lenovo Y50-70
Seraph (Laptop 2) CPU:i7 6700HQ GPU:GTX 970M 3GB RAM:2x8GB DDR4Storage: 256GB Samsung 951 + 1TB Toshiba HDD Model:Asus GL502VT
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My first ever SSD is Kingston and it's solid so far, so there's that. HDDs Western Digital all day every day, had only good experiences so far.

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7 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Samsung for SSD and WD for HDDs. Never had an issue for either brand.

Currently have an 850 EVO and WD Black. No complaints about the 850 EVO and the Black is super fast, if slightly loud.

Same here cloned my Dell 1TB OS to a Samsung 850 Evo 1TB. 4TB Black WD for my Steam/Origin/Blizzard Library. and a WD My Book 4TB External. 

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HDD: WD or HGST

SSD: Sandisk is my fave. I've used Crucial, Plextor, and Samsung (Well aside the 840 series) with success as well.

Drive History:

Two 1TB WD Blacks, only one has died so far (after 7 years).

One 2TB WD Black (Still alive / just fine after 6 years).

One 3TB WD Red (Still alive / 4 years)

Six 4TB WD Reds (Still alive / 3 years)

Two 4TB WD Re (Still alive / 1 year)

SSD History:

Plextor 256GB M2P (Still alive / 5 years)

Sandisk Extreme 2 480GB (Still alive / 3 years)

Sandisk Extreme Pro 240GB (Still alive / 1 year)

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I've always used Intel SSD's and Western Digital hard drives, although Hitachi isn't that bad either

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