Storage (Hard Drives)

[TheDreadPirate]

IMO, you will only get anecdotal experiences. My experience is the opposite of tmsrxzar. WD has been super reliable for me. Only one failure of their, at the time, brand new WD Raptor drive and a recoverable failure of another 250GB drive still under warranty.

Been using WD hard drives, almost exclusively, for 23 years so I'd say that is a pretty good track record. I have 7 WD hard drives ranging from 12 years old to 1 year old in various PCs. All except the WD Red Pro in my signature are 5 years old+.

Really, you can't go wrong with any of the big HDD makers. The only thing I suggest is to stay away from SMR drives. Depending on your setup and storage needs, I would opt for a few smaller hard drives over a singular humongous hard drive of the same capacity.