Your experiences?
 
 Finally a Seagate 500Gb drive finally gave out. It's sectors are going bad. It was past it's 5 warranty. I might have had this drive for 8 years.  This is an internal drive I use for storage so no major loss.
 
 Odd, I still prefer WD and I've RMA'd 3 WD Black drives and never a Seagate. Maybe because they send you a drive and you send back the old one. 
 
 I'm gong to replace it with a 1000GB WD Blue.  It's only a 2 yr warranty.  I've had good luck with WB Blue.  
 
 Drives seem to be of better quality in the previous decade.
 
   

Where's Maxtor?  Did he leave the party?!?
 
I've had nothing but good experiences with Western Digital, and I will most likely continue to buy Western Digital for all my decaying-format, mass-storage needs.
 
I have been running two, WD Blue HDD's for the last 5 years without any issues (knock on wood).  Additionally, I have an old WD 80GB HDD still spinning and spewing data in/out since 2006'ish.

Maxtor is Seagate.

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Maxtor is Seagate.

Oh really?  Well, then go with Western Digital!

I should start a business making wall clocks out of all the hard drives I've gone through over the years....

I'd heartily recommend looking into an SSD drive from another maker altogether. If you make the switch you'll be giddy with satisfaction.

At one time, Seagate had a reliability problem.  I haven't heard of any with recent models, on the computer forums I visit, for a long time.  I've got Seagate, Western Digital and Hitachi hard drives and no problem with any.
 
 

WD fan myself - have 3 in my home brew computer one is pushing 7 years now (not running the OS anymore).

 I've got Seagate, Western Digital and Hitachi hard drives and no problem with any.
 
Same here, what ever is on sale. 1 TB drives this week were $54 

Western Digital supplies parts to numerous manufacturers.
Remember a few years ago... a couple WD HD factories were destroyed... and it created a conventional HD shortage.
Prices went thru the roof on *all* HDs.
 
Modern make HDs are pretty reliable.
If you use enough quantity (for a long enough period) you'll (eventually) have HD failure from all the major brands.
IOW, You can't simply buy "brand X" and be immune to failure.
WD, Seagate, and Toshiba all make good drives.
Avoid WD Blue series HDs over 1TB... as they're Intelli-power (not true 7200RPM)
 
Make sure important data is backed up.
More than likely, you won't have an issue... but be prepared and it's nothing more than a minor annoyance.