Toshiba HDDs
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So my HDD has had enough and decided to take a perma vacation now and unfortunately it happened as my warranty just got over. It was about 2 years and it was from Seagate. I'm looking at a 1 TB Toshiba HDD. Can anyone tell me if they are good in quality? Any furious flashbacks or personal opinions?
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So my HDD has had enough and decided to take a perma vacation now and unfortunately it happened as my warranty just got over. It was about 2 years and it was from Seagate. I'm looking at a 1 TB Toshiba HDD. Can anyone tell me if they are good in quality? Any furious flashbacks or personal opinions?
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It still works after a year so this is not helpful to you. HDDs fail and this is a norm. So far I had few failures over the years with WD (those were suppose to be "industrial strength" etc. but failed). I do not remember if Seagate failed on me but I was once warned about those two.
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It still works after a year so this is not helpful to you. HDDs fail and this is a norm. So far I had few failures over the years with WD (those were suppose to be "industrial strength" etc. but failed). I do not remember if Seagate failed on me but I was once warned about those two.
Well it's a pity that HDDs which I got in 2006 are working without any problem. I got the one which stopped around 2010 or 2011.
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So my HDD has had enough and decided to take a perma vacation now and unfortunately it happened as my warranty just got over. It was about 2 years and it was from Seagate. I'm looking at a 1 TB Toshiba HDD. Can anyone tell me if they are good in quality? Any furious flashbacks or personal opinions?
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I wouldn't touch a Seagate, or a Toshiba with your most carefully tended appendage. I know of no happy tales to tell about either brand after more than 30 years of designing, building, programming, integrating, debugging, and generally spending far too much time in the company of computers. Both are bottom of the barrel, best used as boat anchors or starting masses for coral colonies.
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So my HDD has had enough and decided to take a perma vacation now and unfortunately it happened as my warranty just got over. It was about 2 years and it was from Seagate. I'm looking at a 1 TB Toshiba HDD. Can anyone tell me if they are good in quality? Any furious flashbacks or personal opinions?
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Well to start with it's useless to ask about the quality of a HDD brand, they're all having an annual failure rate between 1-4%. It varies wildly between the different models within a brand. Have a look at this[^] statistics for example. WD is at both the top and the bottom, and the only thing differing between the models is one character. The next problem is that you won't know how good a drive is until they're already outdated. So I'll stick out my neck here and tell you that you shouldn't bother about the brand at all. Buy the drive that has the properties you want, with the best warranties and return policies for the price. And if I should generalize, the better the warranties the better the quality.
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I wouldn't touch a Seagate, or a Toshiba with your most carefully tended appendage. I know of no happy tales to tell about either brand after more than 30 years of designing, building, programming, integrating, debugging, and generally spending far too much time in the company of computers. Both are bottom of the barrel, best used as boat anchors or starting masses for coral colonies.
Will Rogers never met me.
Yeah, but you can't even drive WindowsUpdate in a straight line. Bought and used dozens of Seagates and have had one die on me and that includes the Maxtor's I bought before they were swallowed by Seagate.
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So my HDD has had enough and decided to take a perma vacation now and unfortunately it happened as my warranty just got over. It was about 2 years and it was from Seagate. I'm looking at a 1 TB Toshiba HDD. Can anyone tell me if they are good in quality? Any furious flashbacks or personal opinions?
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I am not sure about Toshiba, I have never used it. But recently after reading many reviews, I came to a conclusion that 'Western Digital Caviar Green'[^] are the most reliable HDD available in the market. And Hitachi has the best performance. And at anytime for the storage, I will go with the reliability. I bought two 2 TB WD Green HDD. (Also IMO, don't go for 3TB and 4TB drives, get the 1TB or 2TB ones) Do not look for the price tag when buying a HDD, get the best one, because you can't afford it to fail with your data. You can replace all the other parts on your computer but not the one storing your 'Data'.
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I wouldn't touch a Seagate, or a Toshiba with your most carefully tended appendage. I know of no happy tales to tell about either brand after more than 30 years of designing, building, programming, integrating, debugging, and generally spending far too much time in the company of computers. Both are bottom of the barrel, best used as boat anchors or starting masses for coral colonies.
Will Rogers never met me.
I have had a mixture of Seagate, WD, Hitachi and a Toshiba amongst my more than 32TB of storage at the moment. Up until now I have had two failures, both of them with WD drives so I now only get Seagate 2TB drives. I have had some of them since they first appeared and they have so far been rock solid and are still going. Both of the WDs that failed were 1TB drives. Your experience may vary. EDIT: I forgot I also have 5 Fantom 2TB drives in my collection; they also seem to be working fine.
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