HGST seem to have the best numbers.

HGST continues to be winners.

It's interesting to see Western Digital slowly disappear, when they used to be one of the biggest HDD brands. But, they've wisened up and moved onto SSDs.

schmidtbag:

It's interesting to see Western Digital slowly disappear, when they used to be one of the biggest HDD brands. But, they've wisened up and moved onto SSDs.

6 out of 15 is WD, they not going anywhere

MegaFalloutFan:

6 out of 15 is WD, they not going anywhere

Huh? Only 3 models were mentioned in the chart, and only one was tested for 2018.

schmidtbag:

Huh? Only 3 models were mentioned in the chart, and only one was tested for 2018.

HGST is WD

Toshiba's 5TB drives and Seagate's 10TB drives seem to be at the top of the list. No Toshiba 5TB drives have failed in 2 years....

HGST owned by WD, and HGST lineup is more to enterprise side instead consumer just look at that model/series number, pick one the most drive HMS5C4040BLE640 = Megascale DC 4000.B (https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/hgst/megascale-4000-series/data-sheet-megascale-dc-4000-b.pdf) for Toshiba is HGST OEM/relabel drive so basically other than seagate, basically WD drive, just different plant/factory HGST/Toshiba is china factory .... WD is thailand/malaysia factory... cmiiw and for datacenter such backblaze, that using thousand drives, when ordering hdd obviously will pick the one that give them best price which is seagate before, and for now seems HGST(WD)

I miss Samsung in this space TBH, they had some amazingly quiet and reliable drives (based on my personal experience, YMMV).

If only HGST was still a brand selling quality drives, and no longer defunct. I bought a 6TB HGST NAS early last year. I didnt realise at the time, it is one of the first WD drives labelled HGST. It vibrated so badly I had to mount it on a plastic tray on carpet to prevent the vibration being a constant annoyance. It was also a lot hotter than my other drives and needed its own fan to keep it cool. At about 1/2 a year old it had a severe crash that unmounted the drive while Windows was still in use. It wiped out the main partition, nothing could rescue it, not even testdisk. I fought for days to get the data out and eventually managed it with Easeus Data Recovery. It was mostly backed up but there were some recent photos I didnt want to lose. My previous 4 HGST drives (true Hitachi) have been great, not a single issue, all still running great. A 3 yr old 4TB NAS drive (running 24/7) was in the system at the time of this crash, that drive is ok and still in my system. After this I didnt know what to replace it with and bought a 2 year old but brand new He10 HGST drive to be sure I was getting the HGST pedigree. I hope the newer WD drives prove reliable, for now at least no worries for me. Plenty of time to keep an open mind and watch this space.

Mufflore:

If only HGST was still a brand selling quality drives, and no longer defunct. I bought a 6TB HGST NAS early last year. I didnt realise at the time, it is one of the first WD drives labelled HGST. It vibrated so badly I had to mount it on a plastic tray on carpet to prevent the vibration being a constant annoyance. It was also a lot hotter than my other drives and needed its own fan to keep it cool. At about 1/2 a year old it had a severe crash that unmounted the drive while Windows was still in use. It wiped out the main partition, nothing could rescue it, not even testdisk. I fought for days to get the data out and eventually managed it with Easeus Data Recovery. It was mostly backed up but there were some recent photos I didnt want to lose. My previous 4 HGST drives (true Hitachi) have been great, not a single issue, all still running great. A 3 yr old 4TB NAS drive (running 24/7) was in the system at the time of this crash, that drive is ok and still in my system. After this I didnt know what to replace it with and bought a 2 year old but brand new He10 HGST drive to be sure I was getting the HGST pedigree. I hope the newer WD drives prove reliable, for now at least no worries for me. Plenty of time to keep an open mind and watch this space.

I'm kind'a hoping that SSD will get cheaper than HDD in a few years, and by then I might buy an SSD QNAP NAS with 4-6 4TB drives. One can dream...

HGST still seems to be winning looking at these 2018 results. Charts like this remain so important and thank you to Guru3d for making it a news item. As can be seen above, there are always single case failures by one emotional, dramatic user that enjoys spreading misinformation to cover up the reality that user doesn't know how to maintain a system.

HGST no longer exist.

Mufflore:

HGST no longer exist.

Correct, HSGT was acquired by WD but that has no bearing on this article. HDD units owned by datacenters and consumers last much longer. This article reaffirms HGST is/was the most reliable brand. As for drives that "vibrate so badly" and "need their own fan to cool" that is just the fables or failure of an incompetent user.

campb292:

Correct, HSGT was acquired by WD but that has no bearing on this article. HDD units owned by datacenters and consumers last much longer. This article reaffirms HGST is/was the most reliable brand. As for drives that "vibrate so badly" and "need their own fan to cool" that is just the fables or failure of an incompetent user.

Riiight. It runs 10C hotter than my 3 years older HGST 4TB drive and makes enough vibration which translates to noise, to be quite a distraction unless steps are taken to minimise it. Since you arent here you have no idea. You are talking out of your backside and are quite unpleasant doing it. It isnt my level of competence that needs to be considered. I have been an HGST fan and user since well before 2010. I have doubt moving forward for good reason yet stated I will keep an open mind, I guess you were blind to that. Now you want to be the police to dictate what can be discussed on the topic of hard drive reliability in a thread about hard drive reliability. Pleasant chap.

Mufflore:

Riiight. It runs 10C hotter than my 3 years older HGST 4TB drive and makes enough vibration which translates to noise, to be quite a distraction unless steps are taken to minimise it.

I'm guessing that what campb292 might be saying is that a competent user knows that it's a faulty drive and gets it exchanged with a normal one.

heffeque:

I'm guessing that what campb292 might be saying is that a competent user knows that it's a faulty drive and gets it exchanged with a normal one.

When you dont have the facts, make assumptions first. Nice. And that isnt all he tried to impart. I couldnt assume it had a fault after reading user reports of the new HGST drives and WD drives being noisy, it seemed par for the course. A typical one https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5nk6d3/hgst_drives_very_loud_would_wd_reds_be_quieter/ I stuck a fan directly on it to bring it under 35C and waited to see if anything changed for the worse. It lasted 6 months and wasnt hot when it went titsup.

campb292:

Correct, HSGT was acquired by WD but that has no bearing on this article. HDD units owned by datacenters and consumers last much longer. This article reaffirms HGST is/was the most reliable brand. As for drives that "vibrate so badly" and "need their own fan to cool" that is just the fables or failure of an incompetent user.

Exactly. This article is just using data gathered from a reputable source to show what drives are the most reliable rather than user A, user B, user C's isolated and statistically irrelevant horror stories.