Thanks for voting . I'm planning to buy a new hard drive soon but I can't decide what brand I should go with. So I will buy one that has the highest number of votes
I' ve seen many "Made in China" Toshiba and Hitachi drives recently and I'm really scared to buy one
All of the drives I own (aside from Samsung and Seagate) are either "Made in Philipines/Malaysia" or "Made in Thailand"
At the end of the day, most drive manufacturers are average for reliability excluding enterprise grade equipment. Just go with a brand you have good experience with. Everybody is going to have some bad experience with every reasonably successful consumer HDD.
If data reliability is something you're looking for, you get a RAID array. Simple as that. And the point of a RAID array is to give you reliability with cheap disks. So again. Doesn't really matter what you choose until you get up to enterprise grade gear.
Never had any problem with Hitachi ones. My 2008 aluminium MacBook came with a Hitachi HDD, god knows I made it suffer, and it still rocks.
Be careful with WD. My father had a Acer laptop with a WD and it died after 3 years.
WD is bad? It's probably just that type of OEM drive Acer bought from WD was shit regardless.
I use all WD RED (4x3TB + 1x2TB backup) in my NAS and WD Blue 1TB as my "local" storage on PC so I may assume, that I chose WD
After verry informative test results made by backblaze (see reports for 2015 and 2016) I think that now I would choose HGST if we talk about NAS/Enterprise HDDs, but since I started using WD Red few Years ago I will continue with those.
About SSD - dunno why, but I prefer Crucial (I have M4 128GB, and MX200 256GB)
I would avoid toshiba.
I killed 2 slim hdd from them within 2 years.