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I'm choosing between Seagate and Western Digital and I am not sure which one I should get. Or perhaps there's a better option.

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Answers given here are usually based on personal experience, example: I have had 3 Seagate drives die on me in recent years so they are not very good. Reality, all hard drives die eventually so one persons experience is not a very good sampling of who's drives are best, every manufacturer makes a bad model of hard drive. – Moab Nov 19 '10 at 14:27
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IMHO, both are really good, and there isn't anything out there that's better. I haven't used a HDD from any other company than WD or Seagate. I've mostly been using WD drives for the past number of years, but that's only because I've either wanted a very specific drive (the WD 1TB Caviar Black, for instance), or the place I was buying my drive from had WD in stock. In the latter case, I would have gladly taken Seagate instead. This boils down to getting the better deal when comparing essentially equivalent drives.

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+1 In a recent purchase of about 10 of each, 3 WD's died and one seagate. This was in a fairly hot machine, and YMMV. Get whatever you can afford, and get spares ! – Sirex Nov 19 '10 at 12:07
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I am afraid I have to disagree with MBreadley here, I would recommend Seagate or personally tend to go for Toshiba hard drives. In my experience Western Digital drives have a higher propensity to fault than any other drive manufacturer I know. However, this is often down to luck of which drive you get, I have had two die on me personally but have had a third WD that has run without fault for years.

Do a little research, stay smart and whichever you do buy, back up your data.

Further discussion on this can be found here; WD Vs Seagate

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imho, Seagate.

In practice the most reliable harddrive is always the one you didn't buy.

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Could you provide some insight on why you think it's the best brand? – MaxMackie Aug 25 '11 at 2:16
personal experience, nothing more. Had alot of WD and maxtors fail, but in my use case less seagates. I wouldn't be suprised if its really due to having used them for more years than the others and being totally biased, but its a very subjective question. I should reitterate, buy spares of every drive, do not expect any drive to not die at the worst possible moment. They are fickle things, and should not be trusted :-) – Sirex Aug 26 '11 at 13:25
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You're going to get mixed reactions on this (as you can see). Both are top contenders in the HDD market however I've moved back to WD. I've had a lot of problems with Seagate drives of late. WD have really upped their game with the Caviar range.

(Fyi, Caviar Green are your eco friendly drives - lower power, Caviar Black is the opposite - blazing fast, high power and Caviar Blue is the balance of the two)

The Caviar Black 1TB Sata 3 drive was my choice in the end.

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