<div dir="ltr"><div>"Which hard drive to buy" has come up a couple times on this list:<br></div><div><br><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/01/21/2232235/who-makes-the-best-hard-disk-drives">http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/01/21/2232235/who-makes-the-best-hard-disk-drives</a><br>
<br></div><div>The original article, if you want to bypass Slashdot:<br><br><a href="http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/">http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/</a><br>
</div><div><br></div>Backblaze buys the cheapest model of HD they can find, but they use them by the thousands.  The stats they generate are of course for their specific use case, but it's interesting.  The short version: Seagate: Bad, Western Digital: OK, Hitachi: Good (others: not enough data).  I've favoured WD, so I may need to rethink that.  Definitely interesting.<br clear="all">
<div><div><div><br>-- <br>Giles<br><a href="http://www.gilesorr.com/">http://www.gilesorr.com/</a><br><a href="mailto:gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">gilesorr@gmail.com</a>
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