In article , SilverSlimer
wrote:

In absolutely _every_ independent test, Seagate is shown to be the
absolute worst in hard disk reliability.

except the ones where it isn't.

seagate did have some issues, especially with the 1.5 & 3 tb drives,
but so has every other drive maker at one time or another.

all hard drives fail. the question is when, not if.

That said, I had a WD Blue
drive go bad on me after eight months so I guess there's no such thing
as quality anymore. I'd recommend that anyone just go with an SSD
regardless of the fact that the storage space is lower.

although ssds are more reliable than mechanical hard drives, they too
are not perfect and can fail without warning.

back up everything at least once, ideally multiple times (and test each
one), so when a drive fails, it's an easy replace and restore.