Best 2,5" HDD?

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Hi

I'm looking for some 2,5" HDDs (>1TB, no problem with 12,5 or 19mm disks) for data storage.

24/7 power on and without fans (so heat disks aren't for me)


Any suggestions?
 
I work in a computer repair shop attached to a retail store, and recently (inside the last year) I have seen an alarming number of failure of WD Blue drives with Toshiba being right behind it. Based on my experience, if I had to buy a 2.5" HDD today it would be Seagate.
 
Hitachi or hgst 5k1500, great 2.5 mechanical hdd, running one on my laptop with no direct cooling on it and runs fine.
 
mhenley said:
I work in a computer repair shop attached to a retail store, and recently (inside the last year) I have seen an alarming number of failure of WD Blue drives with Toshiba being right behind it. Based on my experience, if I had to buy a 2.5" HDD today it would be Seagate.
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Exact opposite here, I have not seen a single WD Blue laptop drive I sold come back. Pulling Seagate (and older HGST) drives out left and right.
 
ir0nw0lf said:
Exact opposite here, I have not seen a single WD Blue laptop drive I sold come back. Pulling Seagate (and older HGST) drives out left and right.
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I see older HGST drives as well (2009 and earlier), but not much newer. I know their desktop drives are heralded for their reliability, perhaps their laptop drives also share a low failure rate.
 
mhenley said:
I see older HGST drives as well (2009 and earlier), but not much newer. I know their desktop drives are heralded for their reliability, perhaps their laptop drives also share a low failure rate.
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I have owned lots of 2.5 Hitachi / HGST drives from 2009 till today,

1x 7k500
4x 5k500b
1x 5k750
1x 7k1000
2x 5k1500

From all of those, only 1 failed, a 5k500b, all the others remain working in laptops, desktops and external enclosures.

For me the biggest asset hitachi has is that it performs very well, in some instances on par with WD Scorpio black without the noises or high temps, overall its my goto brand for 2.5 hdds.

Either way, the 5k1500 has gotten very good user reviews on amazon.
 
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mhenley said:
I work in a computer repair shop attached to a retail store, and recently (inside the last year) I have seen an alarming number of failure of WD Blue drives with Toshiba being right behind it. Based on my experience, if I had to buy a 2.5" HDD today it would be Seagate.
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Please no. Seagate seems to have the highest failure rate. Not only from personal experience, but based on reports I have read. I do like WD, but have seen failures with the Green ones. Red I believe is for NAS and is good. Black is always good. Hitachi is one of the best which is now owned by Toshiba. Then again, I believe Seagate owns WD.
 
I have this HGST-Travelstar 2.5-Inch 5K1500 drives which I used one as an internal and 2 for external drives and these drives pretty works fine with no issues.
 
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ir0nw0lf said:
Exact opposite here, I have not seen a single WD Blue laptop drive I sold come back. Pulling Seagate (and older HGST) drives out left and right.
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+1 that, I don't discredit the volume seen of Blues failing but my experience has been different. I work in a servicing and repair department for workstations and servers and Seagates are the most commonly replaced.
 
munkle said:
None of this is right. WD owns hitachi (drives), Seagate owns samsung (drives). Toshiba owns toshiba (fujitsu may be thrown in with toshiba, not to sure on that one, upon further research it looks like toshiba bought fujitsu's hdd business in 2009).

Realistically there are 3 hdd makers: WD, Seagate and Toshiba.
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My bad. I guess memory isn't what it used to be. :D I was thinking of Fujitsu when I mentioned Toshiba. I noticed the drives in our NetApp all say Toshiba now.
 
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