On 5/7/2015 3:39 PM, Carl 'Alex' Alexander wrote:
I have to say, I'm a little surprised to see this thread here in 2015. Older and wiser heads were flaming me on this topic back in the 20th Century. Since roughly when the first bubble burst, the hard-drive market has been too competitive and fluid to make useful comparisons between manufacturers: by the time anyone this side of Google or the NSA has seen enough recent drives to discern a pattern among any one manufacturer's products, that pattern will have played itself out. Past performance, even if there exists a real trend to be found, turns out to be orthogonal to future results.
The Backblaze data (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/) suggests otherwise.
While not perfectly predictive, I believe there is sufficient data to find at least several-year trends between manufacturers and even manufacturers product lines. Knowing something about the technology behind some drives (and SSDs) can be even more informative, which is why e.g. NewEgg has the SSD controller listed.
While I agree that "brand loyalty" over a decade is irrelevant, I think patterns in manufacturers and particularly product lines can be a useful (but, of course, not perfect) predictor.
I have, however, found that people often weight brand higher than drive class for predictions, which is particularly error-prone for SSDs (as "Enterprise" drives tend to have higher over-provisioning ratios, which help nearly everything).
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