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- Backblaze reveals best and worst disk drives with 2024 failure rate stats
HGST has climbed to the top of this particular tree in 2024, delivering poorer AFR rates than the previous worst supplier, Seagate, with Toshiba second best and Western Digital providing the most reliable drives of all
- Which HDD has lowest failure? - Darwins Data
To achieve optimal HDD reliability with failure rates under 2% AFR, enterprise class SAS, FC or SATA drives designed for 24 7 operation are recommended Top choices include Hitachi Ultrastar, WD RE, Seagate Exos X and HGST Helium drives
- Best External Hard Drive Brands to Trust in 2025 - SimplyMac
What are the top-rated external hard drive brands for data reliability? Western Digital and Seagate are widely recognized as reliable brands for external storage
- Hard-drive brand failure rates : r DataHoarder - Reddit
Looking to expand my storage space with around 40TB, and I was looking at the cheap 10-16GB USB3 hard-drives from Seagate, but Seagate seems to have higher failure rates
- Which hard drive has the lowest failure rate? - Resto NYC
In summary, HGST hard drives consistently have the lowest annual failure rates based on extensive data from Backblaze But all the major hard drive brands including Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba still have relatively low failure rates around 1-2% per year
- The Best External Hard Drives Weve Tested for 2025 | PCMag
This guide makes sense of these essential external hard drive characteristics and outlines our top choices
- HDD Reliability Report Lists Three Drives That Never Failed
Backblaze's latest drive reliability report identified three models of HDD that suffered no failures in the last quarter
- What brand(s) of hard disk has the lowest failure rates?
For example, there seems to be a high failure rate for the Seagate 1tb 1 5tb drives, but their 250gb 320gb drives are solid* Yet the Western Digital 1tb, 1 5tb, 2tb drives seem more stable, but there have been issues with their 500gb drives*
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