I'm a bit worried about my external hard drive purchase.

divided_throwaway · November 20, 2016

I bought a new 2.5" 4 TB Seagate external USB HDD on eBay for around £110, and since I've done some research regretfully after my purchase, I found out that people have been having issues with that brand, with many of them reporting reliability issues. I do, however, have a broken Western Digital laptop HDD, but it was caused from improper shutdown and the hard drive head to crash onto the platter; nevertheless, I managed to get data recovered from it. I don't intend to use my Seagate hard drive very much, more to just store data in it and access it very occasionally, so I believe that any issues with the drive might be minimised. I've already moved lots of files into it. Will the purchase be justified for my use case, or will I have to find something else?

Electronics Wizardy · November 20, 2016

Whats the problem?

Segate is fine and about the same as any other drive brand. People get mad and think its a bad brand, rather than realizing that all hdd's will fail.

MANIDY inc · November 20, 2016

Ive never had an issue with seagate, unless just that one product is bad

dizmo · November 20, 2016

I've had 3 Seagate drives fail. That said, the Seagate drive in my LaCie external has survived several years, 3 moves to different provinces where it was jostled around quite a bit. It'll be replaced with another LaCie 5tb external next year.

I wouldn't worry about it, but generally people research the product before purchase, not after. Might want to try that next time

divided_throwaway · November 20, 2016

6 hours ago, dizmo said:

I've had 3 Seagate drives fail. That said, the Seagate drive in my LaCie external has survived several years, 3 moves to different provinces where it was jostled around quite a bit. It'll be replaced with another LaCie 5tb external next year.

I wouldn't worry about it, but generally people research the product before purchase, not after. Might want to try that next time

I've heard that Hitachi are a good drive company, but they don't really target consumers when I browsed their website. That said, I'm using a WD mobile internal drive from a different laptop (since that laptop's mobo or something died), and I doubt it's been used as much since that other laptop was newer.