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rowan · 03-30-2011, 03:45 PM

My personal experience (with internal HDs), both on the several backend servers I run from my home office, and also the frontend web servers at professional hosts.

- Seagate are at the bottom of the list. Way too many failures. I no longer buy them for myself and generally ask for anything BUT them when ordering a server. (Have had approx 20 Seagate drives in the past 5 years)

- WD has a moderate number of failures. Not a large percentage. (Have had approx 40 WD drives)

- Have had a failure with one Hitachi but the sample is too small to make a valid conclusion (only have 3 of those drives)

03-30-2011, 03:45 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	My personal experience (with internal HDs), both on the several backend servers I run from my home office, and also the frontend web servers at professional hosts. - Seagate are at the bottom of the list. Way too many failures. I no longer buy them for myself and generally ask for anything BUT them when ordering a server. (Have had approx 20 Seagate drives in the past 5 years) - WD has a moderate number of failures. Not a large percentage. (Have had approx 40 WD drives) - Have had a failure with one Hitachi but the sample is too small to make a valid conclusion (only have 3 of those drives)