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I feel you brother, I broke three 3.5 inch on desktop in a decade. Now I only use western digital. Seagate is very likely to fail in year 2 or year 3 .
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Their 5.25" drives and SCSI drives were great - when they moved to the retail PC market in the 90s they put out some good models and some less good ones.
If you knew anything about WD's history, you'd know they put out their share of lemons as well. Pretty much everyone has. I think HGST(formerly Hitachi) has the lowest incidence of bad designs and usually sits at or near the lowest failure rate for drives. I don't believe they offer as many non-enterprise options as WD or Seagate, however.
Meh. Last years black Friday I got a 2tb for $59.99 so these should be either more space or much cheaper imo.
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A Seagate 500 GB GoFlex for $130 out of a Best Buy. The OG model. When it was on sale. It came with the dock. And a pleather sleeve.
It's been through a lot. It's been in my Xbox 360. My Xbox One X. Dozens of laptops. It's been with me for years. More than a decade. I've been on road trips with it. Times when I didn't have a home.
2020. I moved all the way across the country. And it's still with me. In my bookbag right now. Running strong.
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Years ago Seagate was considered the best. They had a very large, bad batch with a high failure rate and ever since then it's always the same BS, parroting narrative that they are horrible. Only evidence is anecdotal.
Bottom line, all HDs have a risk of failure and all companies have had their share of bad batches.