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

[STAN JONES]

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).

It is

I've had 2 WDs,2 Toshiba,and a Seagate die on me

I've never had a external last more than 4 years and that was only 1

All the others died in less than 2

I currently have 15 internals in my server(all WD black and green drives) and never had a problem

I really should just build another server but I don't have the space for another big ass case

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

I've been in the market for one as well now that ps4 will allow it.

Got my eyes on a wd 8tb but open to suggestions

 

[STAN JONES]

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.

Man the same shyt happened to me years ago

Its what made me build a server

I lost all my old pics,all the music I recorded,all the beats i made,all my movies,albums,tv shows,homemade pornos,etc

I was HURT and haven't fukked with externals since then

Thats why with this new one nothing important is going on it.Only xbox games and full bluray rips

 

[STAN JONES]

Good looking on all the feedback brehs

Gonna go with the WD

 

[Dorian Breh]

Get a WD Black 7200 rpm internal and put it in a USB 3.1 enclosure. Then you'll REALLY be cookin

 

[Golayitdown]

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.

I had the same thing happen to me about 8 years ago. The enclosure completely messed up, but the drive itself was good enough to get the data off.

I broke down years ago and spent the time and effort to learn how to set up a cheap networked file server. It's much more secure and expandable than putting your shyt in the hands of one single external drive.

I will use externals for work and for transferring stuff, but never for backup or storage of my personal stuff.

 

[R=G]

WD died on me for no reason. Seagate tapped out too.

 

[Jonah]

Honestly both Western Digotal & Seagate are good choices. I have numerous HDDs of each around the house.

 

[Zero]

WD all day.

The only WD drive that ever failed me was because my dumb ass dropped it

 

[Jonah]

WD all day.

The only WD drive that ever failed me was because my dumb ass dropped it

Yea, dropping is a no no. Causes a head crash. You would have to pay hella money just for a professional data recovery firm to "try" to fix it. We talkin thousands

 

[Motife43]

I own both. I have a 500GB Seagate for daily computing (music backup, movies, etc) and 1TB WD Elements I bought a couple weeks ago as a backup to the Seagate. No problems from the Seagate in the 4 yrs I've had it (fingers crossed)

 

[Zero]

Yea, dropping is a no no. Causes a head crash. You would have to pay hella money just for a professional data recovery firm to "try" to fix it. We talkin thousands

It worked for a good few days before it started having trouble being read too

Luckily, I was able to put everything on a new drive before it stopped being read completely

 

[blockburna420]

and i was irritated that my girl orderd a Toshiba over a seagate today... Guess i gotta my lady.

 

[Johnny Kilroy]

I bought a 2 TB WD MyBook like 8 years ago and it still works. This crazy bytch actually threw that shyt in an attempt to break it and it still works.

Now that's all I fukk with.

 

[Maximus Rex]

Just bought two 4TB WD Passports

one for my laptop the other for my ps4 whenever 4.5 comes out

my 2TB passport has been running for over 2 years