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A very knowledgeable techie on another website said : "I avoid Seagate like the plague and few other people I know in the business do too. From personal experience over the years, Seagate drive failure rates have far outweighed all other manufacturers combined."

I'm looking to have a computer built for me by allpczone, who has an exceedingly stellar rating on eBay. I want to get two 1 TB hard drives in my new computer. I'm also looking for a 2 TB hard drive to serve as a backup hard drive in some kind of external enclosure or dock. I could save a lot of money on the computer by going with Seagate. But…

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I've had a few western digital drives die on me, but I have a seagate portable that I've had since 2006 still going strong even after taking it through a year in Iraq and even having it in my pocket or rucksack for a few airborne jumps from about 1200 feet. Still works, still sucks to land on.

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I've had a few western digital drives die on me, but I have a seagate portable that I've had since 2006 still going strong even after taking it through a year in Iraq and even having it in my pocket or rucksack for a few airborne jumps from about 1200 feet. Still works, still sucks to land on.

[Brazened]

There will be some models of both brands that excels and those usually have 5 year warranties on them. I have a Seagate Constellation 1TB in my i5 system and it's a server drive with a 5 year warranty. I have an old WD Green 500gig drive in my other build that's working since 2006. It was in my old AMD system and now in my i3 system I built in the last month of 2012.

Edited by Brazened, 02 December 2013 - 06:54 PM.