HDDs from Hitachi are the most reliable
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lucidus
Hardly surprised to see Seagate as the worst. WTF is wrong with them ...
ClockClocker
Strange. My GF has a 3TB barracuda and it works just fine for around a year now. Usually i buy Samsung.
---TK---
I can confirm seagate being the worst. All I have from them are certified repaired now.
James Frazer
I would have thought that the sale of Samsung's HDD division to Seagate would have seen them improve. Obviously not. I think I'll be going with WD in future as I have had personal negative experiences with Hitachi.
Damn I miss Samsung's HDD's, they really knew what they were doing and it shows at the success of their SSD's now.
vbetts
Moderator
I've heard Toshiba's are the worst, Seagate I've heard mixed views about, I love my barracuda drives.
alanm
Had a couple Seagate 1tb units for a year now, no probs. Hope they keep going.
schmidtbag
I personally haven't had much bad luck with Seagate, but I think what separates them from WD is their more in-depth SMART diagnostics and they're pretty good about replacing defective drives. On the other hand, by adding more diagnostics, Seagate drives are more likely to "fail" even if there isn't really a problem.
Corbus
Damn..just bought a 2tb SSHD, oh well. I'll see how that works for me.
Pill Monster
Is this a joke? Hitachi are the worst.
http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee426/pillmonsta/Capture-32.png
nicugoalkeper
+1 from me to.
Pill Monster
There's something not right with these stats, they are completely skewed.
Yes Seagate had problems with the 1.5TB drives...that is no secret, however doesn't anyone think it's pretty strange there are no 1TB or 2TB Seagate drives in this graph?
http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/hard-drive-annual-failure-rate-hitachi-seagate-wd.jpg
UZ7
Yeah, not all drive models are created equal, they should have the same playing field. 1TB 1 platter? 2 platters? 3 platters?
CybrSage
They also did not mention the size of the lots they buy in. For example, if they bought 1000 Seagate HDDs in one shot and that lot had a problem, it would severely skew their results.
When drives have no problem, lot purchase info is not so important since the default expected state is no problems. But when there are problems, lot info is important.
CybrSage
This is my experience as well. Seagate replaces the drive under warranty without you having to prove it is failing.
BABA-The Hacker
TRUE.....as Seagate's HHDs firmwares are most likely to be available....
sdamaged99
I like Western Digital, mainly due to the advanced replacement RMA drives you can get
I've got a few RED drives now, not sure how good they are yet but i've RMA's a few greens over the last three years and they seem to be starting to fail now in my raid array
Kaarme
Some Seagate models carry only a single year warranty over here. Maybe it differs from country to country, but honestly an HD with such a short warranty tells the manufacturer itself doesn't expect much from it. Fortunately that's only some of their models, so I can still keep them in mind in addition to WD, whichever happens to have better prices at the moment.
jbmcmillan
I had a negative rma experience from Hitachi that soured me on them as well.
Reddoguk
The make of the drive means nothing.
It's a lotto just like people, some live long while others die young.
elpsychodiablo
Thats funny, i cant count how much importaint datas i lost which i never get back on Harddisks of Western Digital, IBM/Hitachi, Hitachi Notebook Harddisk.
I already run years 7200.12 500GB in in Stripeset Raid 24/7 and 3 7200.14 2GB Raid 5.
I have 6 Harddisk of Seagate 7200.9 with 160GB not in use i dont know what i should do with them and they still works fine 😀
So i dont give a XXXX to that News.
