I'm having two 1TB Seagate drives replaced under warranty.

Does anyone have a preference of Samsung or Western Digital Drives?

My OS drive is a Samsung SSD.

For this reason, the tech was leaning towards two Samsung 1TB drives.

Anyone have any insight to offer on this decision?

Thanks in advance.

If you look up all the problems with WD and what is noted on them in the forum it is no question Samsung is the better drive for what you want

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Iorana Haraharaini

Hi,

SSD is a good toy for example to store the OS, but don't trust it at all, and don't store any valuable on it....

If you want reliable hdd, buy Hitachi CLA, SLA, ALA drives, or Samsung models.
(This question depends on the location, for example here in Hungary, we have a lot of crap quality samsung drives, wich dies under the half of the warranty, or in the first 1-3 months.
The WD is really bad decision here, more worst than samsung.)

General good tip for drives "before you start using":
If you buy any big (>500GB) hdd, first plug it in to an linux box, and run the badblocks -vvw on int.
It will take a lot of time, but in the end, the drive will do reallocations if there is any weak area of the platters.
IMHO i don't use any of the drives wich adds to the G list during this test. (check this with smartctl)
Better idea to sell it, and buy another one.

Janos

My personal preference for reliability is Samsung, not the worlds quickest but good solid drives.

Hitachi always come across as a bit "cheap and nasty" to me, but that's just my view.

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I would stick with seagate. Generally very recoverable. I don't think I have seen a 7200.11 with a head crash, they usually fail well before that stage. As long as you got backups, it doesn't matter what drives you use.

I also vote samsung, seem very well made. I would say its the VW of the HDD world.

I've had plenty of problems with my VW...

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