Seagate or WD ?

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Backblaze, a cloud backup company, regularly publishes statistics showing failure rates of the hard drives in their server farms. The short of the Q1 2016 report is that the most reliable drives are from HGST (was Hitachi, now owned by WD), with WD falling behind Seagate for the first time in three years.

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I currently have two WDs and was considering one of the Samsung SSDs.

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Interesting and good to know! I’ve always just looked at WD and Seagate as more less peers… Live and learn.

L’chaim!

Moshe ben David

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I’ve had both but none have ever failed for me. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to a magnetic hard drive after having SSDs for the past 7 years.

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SSD: Samsung
Mechanical: WD

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Seagate owns wd ya know

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@Piester: Didn’t know that. Not real surprised; I remember when the HD industry segment for PC’s was just starting… I used to work for a company that was a supplier to both of them. But I lost track of the players!

L’chaim!

Moshe ben David

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Piester said: ↑
Seagate owns wd ya know
And WD owns HDST :running:

And… WD is in bidding to buy Toshiba’s semiconductor unit.

So it seems, no mater which you buy, you get Seagate :bounce:
#38variable, Jun 10, 2017

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There was an April Fools day joke several years ago about Seagate buying WD.

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ou say tomato, I say tahmahto; …

Regardless of whether Seagate did buy WD or not, for a long time for most of us performance differences were too small to matter. I’d say in this instance your determining factor will be price.

L’chaim!

Moshe ben David

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