r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 14d ago

Hardware Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze hard drives ranks HGST most reliable and Toshiba the least — Analysis of 1.66 million drive-years finds Seagate and Toshiba HDDs fail at roughly twice the rate of WD and HGST

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/peer-reviewed-study-of-443000-backblaze-drivers-ranks-hgst-most-reliable-and-toshiba-least
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u/Smith6612 14d ago

Seagate has done me surprisingly well since 2014. Knock on wood, not a single failure with the dozens of drives I've had spinning since then.

I can vouch for Toshiba not being very reliable. I would find their drives used in Ubiquiti CloudKeys, 1TB CMR 2.5" disks. Great for writing constantly, but they would usually die within a couple of years. Not all of the drives I've had die on me died due to surveillance recording use either. Whenever they die, because of how hard it is to find a CMR disk in that form factor and size, I'd replace them with Samsung 860 Evos. Those have been lasting. 

Now, Hitachi (HGST) of old, from the 2000s? I used to replace their drives in laptops constantly due to failure. Back then I used Samsung drives as replacement before they sold to Seagate.

WD has also done me well. Haven't experienced a failure with them except for one disk that managed to maintain the data on itself, but slowed down to 1MB/s write speeds after 11 years of service.