For me there really isn't much difference between WD and Seagate. I've bought both over the years. Some are great, others less so. Sometimes a model slips out that has an error or failure rate higher than normal. Seagates 1TB+ 7200.11 drives is an example.

What are some good reliable hard drives for around $100 canadian max Thanks for the help, im really scared of HDD failing. Oct 17, 2018: S: what is most reliable.

All of the WD AAKS model drives I owned died on me. I'm currently running Samsung SSDs in my tower, and storage is handled by two 4TB Seagate DM0001 drives.

Backups are handled by retired 2TB drives I owned. WD though I don't remember which model off hand. For what it's worth, for unknown reasons the HGST 'deskstars' are noticeably reliable on studies I've seen. There are honestly so many variables it's hard to say which is better than the others. I've found HDD's from most reputable manufacturers have about the same reliability and no-one makes trouble-free drives. I've had WD drives last for 4yrs no worries and then others that have acted up in 6 months. Same with Seagate drives.

On the positive side, HDD's rarely fail completely overnight and in my experience, can typically be still backed up even when they do fail (albeit with a lot of patience). Choose the right HDD for your needs (server HDD's for servers etc), and if you are a gamer or use your computer for heavy workloads, you may find it worthwhile buying a 7200rpm drive. I would avoid the WD Green's however since some people have had issues with their power saving techniques but that may just be an isolated issue. Unfortunately Hitachi was bought out by WD in 2012, though their products live on as HGST, a wholly owned subsidiary with their own brand/product lines.

WD also sold off parts of Hitachi to Toshiba, with mixed product lines with varying reputations. The best way to maintain data integrity is keeping redundant backups, so if that's your priority it may be better to buy 2 smaller drives from different manufacturers and keep them mirrored.

For best security, you'd also want an off-site backup to guard against things like fire, flood, power surges etc. I've found HDD's from most reputable manufacturers have about the same reliability and no-one makes trouble-free drives. I've had WD drives last for 4yrs no worries and then others that have acted up in 6 months. Same with Seagate drives. On the positive side, HDD's rarely fail completely overnight and in my experience, can typically be still backed up even when they do fail (albeit with a lot of patience). Choose the right HDD for your needs (server HDD's for servers etc), and if you are a gamer or use your computer for heavy workloads, you may find it worthwhile buying a 7200rpm drive.

I would avoid the WD Green's however since some people have had issues with their power saving techniques but that may just be an isolated issue. Why does every HDD have some crazy 1 star percentage at liek 16% of negitive reviews and failing in one week??

Like this HDD. Unfortunately Hitachi was bought out by WD in 2012, though their products live on as HGST, a wholly owned subsidiary with their own brand/product lines. WD also sold off parts of Hitachi to Toshiba, with mixed product lines with varying reputations. The best way to maintain data integrity is keeping redundant backups, so if that's your priority it may be better to buy 2 smaller drives from different manufacturers and keep them mirrored. For best security, you'd also want an off-site backup to guard against things like fire, flood, power surges etc. HGST still makes its own drives, including some very nice helium drives that are way out of OP's price range but their consumer drives are excellent as are other modern drives. And yes, backup is critical since (almost) all drives eventually fail if used long enough.

I've found HDD's from most reputable manufacturers have about the same reliability and no-one makes trouble-free drives. I've had WD drives last for 4yrs no worries and then others that have acted up in 6 months.

Same with Seagate drives. On the positive side, HDD's rarely fail completely overnight and in my experience, can typically be still backed up even when they do fail (albeit with a lot of patience).

Choose the right HDD for your needs (server HDD's for servers etc), and if you are a gamer or use your computer for heavy workloads, you may find it worthwhile buying a 7200rpm drive. I would avoid the WD Green's however since some people have had issues with their power saving techniques but that may just be an isolated issue. Why does every HDD have some crazy 1 star percentage at liek 16% of negitive reviews and failing in one week?? Like this HDD Some people are just unlucky. I've had a WD Blue last me at least a few years before it died and even then, I was still able to access its contents when using it as a secondary drive. I find when a drive 'dies' on me, it becomes intermittent in use and slow to access which is why I said you need to be patient with it if you wish to retrieve its data. If a drive fails within a week, it is likely a faulty unit so run a HDD diagnostic tool on arrival and keep this in mind for the first few weeks of usage.

I've found HDD's from most reputable manufacturers have about the same reliability and no-one makes trouble-free drives. I've had WD drives last for 4yrs no worries and then others that have acted up in 6 months. Same with Seagate drives.

On the positive side, HDD's rarely fail completely overnight and in my experience, can typically be still backed up even when they do fail (albeit with a lot of patience). Choose the right HDD for your needs (server HDD's for servers etc), and if you are a gamer or use your computer for heavy workloads, you may find it worthwhile buying a 7200rpm drive. I would avoid the WD Green's however since some people have had issues with their power saving techniques but that may just be an isolated issue. Why does every HDD have some crazy 1 star percentage at liek 16% of negitive reviews and failing in one week?? Like this HDD People mostly write reviews when they have an issue. WD Blue are the cheapest drives offered by WD, so you can't expect miracles especially if people try to use them in RAID arrays. If looking at WD for a single drive, Green for quiet reliability and Black for performance.

Black is expensive compared to WD Green or Seagate. Seagate have dropped alternate variations for desktop drives and just offer Barracuda drives. I haven't had any problems with them. Just like WD, good if you use them as they were designed. HGST is the other major option, formerly Hitatchi. Again, good drives if used as intended.

As other have mentioned, assume any drive will fail. Backup important data to an external USB drive and keep it disconnected. This protects you from hard drive failure as well as ransomware attacks. Automated backups to another internal drive might be useful if you desperately don't want to lose recent changes, but this won't help with ransomware. Don't bother with RAID unless using a hardware RAID controller and suitable drives. I've found HDD's from most reputable manufacturers have about the same reliability and no-one makes trouble-free drives. I've had WD drives last for 4yrs no worries and then others that have acted up in 6 months. Pdf converter download software.

Same with Seagate drives. On the positive side, HDD's rarely fail completely overnight and in my experience, can typically be still backed up even when they do fail (albeit with a lot of patience). Choose the right HDD for your needs (server HDD's for servers etc), and if you are a gamer or use your computer for heavy workloads, you may find it worthwhile buying a 7200rpm drive. I would avoid the WD Green's however since some people have had issues with their power saving techniques but that may just be an isolated issue. Why does every HDD have some crazy 1 star percentage at liek 16% of negitive reviews and failing in one week??

Like this HDD If you buy a drive and it works as expected, maybe you review it and maybe you don't. If you buy a drive and it fails 3 months later with important data on it.you're a lot more motivated to put up a review. And since the commoditization of drives, they're seen more as a consumable. Ie, you'll go through several in the course of owning a computer, rather than just 1 per. Drives (excepting ssd's) don't seem to get people excited much these days.

Or to put it another way, let's say you like a fast food joint that servers an ok burger. Not a great burger but ok and inexpensive. If you have that burger a dozen times over the course of a year, and 11 of those 12 times it's exactly the same, you probably don't race out to tell anyone about the average burger you just ate. But if you're eating the 12th burger and you find a rat tail in it. Anyway, as 4745454b said, every manufacturer produces a lemon now and then. It was particularly bad after the Thailand floods but it's settled back down since then.

All you can really do is look into specific models to see if it has more problems than usual, and of course keep backups. Why do do many people rate drives (and other stuff) low on Newegg when it is a good product? Three main reasons: (1) the poor Newegg packaging results in the drives getting beaten to death during shipping, (2) poster bias - unhappy buyers are much more likely to post, and (3) dumb buyer bias - many of the posts there are by users that think they know a lot while they know very little, so they buy the wrong drive, like green drives for RAID arrays. You are much better off getting opinions from a forum like Tom's where those factors are understood and minimized.