Although I never used Seagate HDDs, I already heard a lot of complaints (12 complaints, to be exact) of them dying out of nowhere from close friends. From those 12 friends, 6 bought Samsung HDDs as replacement, and well, after around 4 months they all complained about them overheating (?), generally dying a short time after the incident.
Besides that, I have an external 2.5" Toshiba HDD (bought 6 years ago), my HTPC has an 3.5" WD HDD even older (8 years) and on my laptop I have a 2.5" HGST running for 3 years (and counting). All of them are working trouble free and I never had issues until now, the only thing I could complain is that the HGST from my laptop always sounded too noisy for my tasting, at least when comparing to the others.
So, overall, Samsung and Seagate are the ones that gives most problem (based on what I heard -- also, apparently they both have merged?). That's a bummer since AFAIK only Seagate manufactures 2.5" HDDs of standard thickness at 2 TB size, and I'm looking forward doubling the HDD from my laptop soon...
Besides that, I have an external 2.5" Toshiba HDD (bought 6 years ago), my HTPC has an 3.5" WD HDD even older (8 years) and on my laptop I have a 2.5" HGST running for 3 years (and counting). All of them are working trouble free and I never had issues until now, the only thing I could complain is that the HGST from my laptop always sounded too noisy for my tasting, at least when comparing to the others.
So, overall, Samsung and Seagate are the ones that gives most problem (based on what I heard -- also, apparently they both have merged?). That's a bummer since AFAIK only Seagate manufactures 2.5" HDDs of standard thickness at 2 TB size, and I'm looking forward doubling the HDD from my laptop soon...
Avell A70 MOB: Core i7-11800H, GeForce RTX 3060, 16 GB DDR4-3200, Windows 11 (Insider Preview)
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ASRock Z97M OC Formula: Pentium G3258, GeForce GT 440, 16 GB DDR3-1600, Windows 10 (22H2)