How long back do you see that trend Thane? I know Seagate has swung wildly, repeatedly in & out of favor for down right junk and poor decisions over the past 25yrs+. Where I can't from-the-hip make a similar statement of WD or HGST being as notorious for failures.
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Thane Sherrington <[email protected]> wrote: > At 10:12 AM 25/01/2015, A L wrote: >> >> Thought this might be of interest to the collective: > > > Interesting article. In my experience (and I work on 4-8 computers a day), > the most reliable are the WD Black series, followed by Hitachi, and Seagate > third. > > Of course, many failures I see are due to people letting their computers > overheat (or poorly engineered cases that don't properly cool components) > and impacts. > > But on machines that don't appear to have external events affecting the > drive, I see a lot fewer failures on WD than I do on Seagate. I don't see > as many of other brands out there - probably because I don't see a lot of > enterprise series drives. > > T > >
