Someone just stumbled on the deal at WD.com, I see. :)
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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There is no best. Buy what you can afford, look for sales, look for drives with a good warranty, avoid SMR if your use case requires, and back up your data. Trying to find the "best" drives is a fools errand
If I live to be a 100 I'll still never forget just how many Seagate drives have prematurely died in my setups. I won't say never again, but it would take something drastic for me to ever pull the trigger on buying Seagate again. Almost no issues with Western Digital since I switched over.
I've only had 1 WD drive fail on me, and no Toshibas (some of which are going on 6 years running). I have had multiple prior Seagate failures, but have heard they have supposedly gotten better. I also do not like some of the "shady" things that WD has been consistently doing. I have read reports that the Toshiba's tend to be louder, and that there can be issues with the warranty.
I ordered a Toshiba N300 PRO, so we'' see how it does and I'll check out the warranty before anything.
--- DS