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comment by Meriadoc
Meriadoc  ·  3842 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do you organize your audio?

There was recently a comparison of Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba. Western Digitals are the best overall, with failures occurring steadily, but not many, over a five year time scale; less than 5% fail overall. Toshiba, after six months, was the best. Around the same failure rate as WD, but over that short time, and then virtually no failures.

Seagate was abysmal. 15% failed rather quickly, and after three years nearly 30%.





ButterflyEffect  ·  3842 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would definitely go WD.

But I'm also biased because A: I like their products and B: I've done some work involving their hard drive disks and have a greater knowledge of their products than others.

Edit: Responded to the wrong comment. Oh well.

humanodon  ·  3842 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Good thing I'm on :)

WD seems to be the unanimous favorite and you guys seem to know a whole lot more about hardware than I do, so that's encouraging for sure.

humanodon  ·  3842 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Good to know, thanks!