Hello,

WD have amazing quality harddisks.
Seagate too.

Reading the following website, comparing those two brands.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...le-hard-drives

What are you user experience of harddisk (WD vs Seagate)? Maybe some feedbacks from users may be of interests.

Thank you!

There should be a choice for "No preference". Both brands have had their share of horror stories and have people swearing never to buy that brand again. My own preference right now is for HGST, but that brand has been taken over by Western Digital, so whether its history of superior quality will continue is uncertain.

Well WD was in the past slightly better than Seagate, but it might have changed.

I have had positive experiences with both.

I've had two Seagate drives fail on my while still new.

WDs I've had great experiences with. My super-low-end WDs (Greens) lasted years, and my midrange (Black, Blue, Red) WDs have lasted until I decided to replace them.

What about the red? they are much more expensive.

SSD looks cool but too expensive.

I'm still using this one that I bought in 2013:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...7/#post4982162

Erm, use both?
Components fail, always when you need them not to.
Or use either?
Again, hardware will fail.
edit: to explain I think that, known issues aside, I think talk of vendors is irrelevant and how to ensure data is backed up, accesible and safe is important and not much else.

Seems that Seagate is in favor so far regarding the poll. I wonder if really seagate is that good.

IMO, Samsung (if I can afford it), SanDisk otherwise. I'll go with a small cheap SSD before I go with a large slow spinning platters anymore. I have 1 drive that has platters, a 2 TB external drive that is used for backups and nothing else.

Seagate and WD offer a limited Acronis for windows users so that is something.

I have had no trouble with either of these brands,whether as boot or data drives.These days I use SSDs exclusively for boot drives to speed up my antique hardware.For these I am using Sandisk and Kingston,both of which are trouble free so far.(about a year and a half).I guess the most impressive HDD I have is the first 2 TB hard drive I ever bought,when that size first became available.It is a WD black,and has been used as a data drive in 3 or 4 computers as I upgraded from a 10 yr old computer to a n 8 yr old,etc.Rather than copy music files to the boot drive,I just move the data drive to whatever computer I am using.I started doing it this way back in Windows 7,to avoid losing data when there were problems with Windows(crashes,unwanted updates that broke things,etc).Now it is just standard procedure for me.It also saves money on SSDs,since I dont need a very big boot drive.The only issue,a very small one,is deciding what power setting to use on the data drive.It presently powers up on bootup,and then powers down after 15 min.if not in use.I find I access the data drive less and less as I do more stuff on line.Netflix,email,etc.All that being said,whats the big deal,anyway?With Linux it is a trivial matter to install onto a new HDD.My advise is buy quality,and dont worry about it.

Never had an issue with WD.

Green, blue, which colors of hdd?

Mostly, blue. Including my latest portable WD HDD which is also (accidentally) blue.