Need a external HDD....WD or Seagate?

[STAN JONES]

I absolutely hate externals

had 3 die on me(2 WD and 1 Seagate) in a 6 month span about 5 years ago which made me build a server

now my server is full and i dont want to spend the money building another one(dont really have the space either) so im just gonna get a portable external for my blurays

im looking at these 2 options:

Seagate Backup Plus 4TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0
WD 4TB Black My Passport Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0

dont really care about the speeds since all I'll be using it for is watch blurays,just want to know which is more reliable aka less likely to die

 

[gho3st]

I absolutely hate externals

had 3 die on me(2 WD and 1 Seagate) in a 6 month span about 5 years ago which made me build a server

now my server is full and i dont want to spend the money building another one(dont really have the space either) so im just gonna get a portable external for my blurays

im looking at these 2 options:

Seagate Backup Plus 4TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0
WD 4TB Black My Passport Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0

dont really care about the speeds since all I'll be using it for is watch blurays,just want to know which is more reliable aka less likely to die

buy a western digital if you want to spend your money on another one this time next year

 

[dakidblu]

buy a western digital if you want to spend your money on another one this time next year

Damn i just got the WD 8TB for my xbox one like 3 days ago too

 

[1970s HeRon Flow]

I got the WD passport X for my X1
From all the reports I seen WD was the best and Seagate has the worst failure rate

 

[Dorian Breh]

I got the WD passport X for my X1
From all the reports I seen WD was the best and Seagate has the worst failure rate

This. I'd never trust a Seagate drive, just based on the shady reviews on literally every e commerce website on the internet. WD 4TB passport is good looks, OP, go for it

 

[The Infamous]

 

[VladTheImpaler]

Stay away from Seagate... awful!!

 

[gho3st]

look at the small sample size for Western Digital and Toshiba.... why you think that is??? Western Digital bought HGST and guess what? its quality has nothing to do with WD

 

[PS5 Pro]

I absolutely hate externals

had 3 die on me(2 WD and 1 Seagate) in a 6 month span about 5 years ago which made me build a server

now my server is full and i dont want to spend the money building another one(dont really have the space either) so im just gonna get a portable external for my blurays

im looking at these 2 options:

Seagate Backup Plus 4TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0
WD 4TB Black My Passport Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0

dont really care about the speeds since all I'll be using it for is watch blurays,just want to know which is more reliable aka less likely to die

I heard internet speeds are fast enough for Blu-ray quality streaming no problem

 

[Piffiztheanswer]

Answer this man!!! Im tryna get one too for my ps4

 

[BaldingSoHard]

WD easy.

Bought a Seagate one last year. shyt is slow as fukk...

Once it dies, my porn collection dies with it.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

my last two internals are HGST's

they aren't really that much more than seagate/wd


i suggest anyone buying to go with those, i've lost too much data to that cheap shyt

 

[Tunez]

I have a WD My Passport 1TB for my backup, it's been over 2 years since I bought it and it's still working

 

[Killigraphy]

All hard drives will accumulate vectors till they die out. HGST, statistically is killing the game. WD has been quasi reliable, to be fair, one of mine has lasted 7 years (internal desktop) while the other new one is going on 3 years. I honestly feel like its only externals that for some reason, lock up or simply stop working. I've had two WD externals die on me, as has a friend of mine. When it comes to externals, I don't even bother anymore. I back up shyt on gmail (Using up 7 gigs up on there).

If its a game, I can simply re-download it. So making backups is easy for me as I only backup documents, music, pictures and songs. Also newegg has them cheap (refurb).

 

[The Guru]

No space to add another internal hdd somewhere? Lost my whole music collection and movies to a WD external. Still has me To be fair it fell while in use, but it fell about a foot onto a thick carpet.