I’ve owned several hundreds of drives. No manufacturer is immune. It’s more about the drive model than anything. Enterprise disks are better. Each manufacturer has made crappy drives. Go for the nicer model of whomever you like, beat it to death in its first month. If it survives infant mortality it will last a long time.
We still have a Western Digital Caviar Black in our house that’s still rocking and currently on 44k+ power on hours. We were expecting it to die a couple years ago but it didn’t yet. Using it since 2009. This is the best one I’ve seen.
For real, the only hard drives I’ve ever had fail on me were Seagates.
I’ve owned several hundreds of drives. No manufacturer is immune. It’s more about the drive model than anything. Enterprise disks are better. Each manufacturer has made crappy drives. Go for the nicer model of whomever you like, beat it to death in its first month. If it survives infant mortality it will last a long time.
We still have a Western Digital Caviar Black in our house that’s still rocking and currently on 44k+ power on hours. We were expecting it to die a couple years ago but it didn’t yet. Using it since 2009. This is the best one I’ve seen.