Don’t look at Backblaze drive reports then. WD is pretty much all good, Seagate has some good models that are comparable to WD, but they have some absolutely unforgivable ones as well.
Not every Seagate drive is bad, but nearly every chronically unreliable drive in their reports is a Seagate.
Personally, I’ve managed hundreds of drives in the last couple of decades. I won’t touch Seagate anymore due to their inconsistent reliability from model to model (and when it’s bad, it’s bad).
It used to be pertinent to check the color of WD drives. I can’t remember all of them but of the top of my head I remember Blue dying the most. They used to have black, red and maybe a green model, now they have purple and gold as well. Each was designated for certain purposes / reliability.
Source: Used to be a certified Apple/Dell/HP repair tech, so I was replacing hard drives daily.
Gold is the enterprise ones. Black is enthusiast, blue is desktop, red is NAS, purple is NVR, green is external. Green you almost certainly don’t want (they do their own power management), red is likely to be SMR. But otherwise they’re not too different. If you saw a lot of blues failing, it’s probably because the systems you supported used blue almost exclusively.
I thought green was “eco.” At least the higher-end external ones tend to be red drives, which is famously why people shuck them to use internally because they’re often cheaper than just buying a red bare drive directly, for some reason.
I feel the exact same about WD drives and I’m quite happy since I switched to Seagate.
Don’t look at Backblaze drive reports then. WD is pretty much all good, Seagate has some good models that are comparable to WD, but they have some absolutely unforgivable ones as well.
Not every Seagate drive is bad, but nearly every chronically unreliable drive in their reports is a Seagate.
Personally, I’ve managed hundreds of drives in the last couple of decades. I won’t touch Seagate anymore due to their inconsistent reliability from model to model (and when it’s bad, it’s bad).
I have.
But after personally having suffered 4 complete disk failures of WD drives in less then 3 years, it’s really more like a “fool me once” situation.
It used to be pertinent to check the color of WD drives. I can’t remember all of them but of the top of my head I remember Blue dying the most. They used to have black, red and maybe a green model, now they have purple and gold as well. Each was designated for certain purposes / reliability.
Source: Used to be a certified Apple/Dell/HP repair tech, so I was replacing hard drives daily.
Gold is the enterprise ones. Black is enthusiast, blue is desktop, red is NAS, purple is NVR, green is external. Green you almost certainly don’t want (they do their own power management), red is likely to be SMR. But otherwise they’re not too different. If you saw a lot of blues failing, it’s probably because the systems you supported used blue almost exclusively.
I thought green was “eco.” At least the higher-end external ones tend to be red drives, which is famously why people shuck them to use internally because they’re often cheaper than just buying a red bare drive directly, for some reason.
Correct about the greens. They used to be (might still be) the ones that ran at a lower RPM
You might be right. Although I think it’s been pretty hit or miss with which drives they use in those enclosures.