There is actually a non-commercial HD more reliable than this, which is the WD 'black' drives, the server grade drives, but theyre not consumer grade On sale, 2TB Toshiba 3.5' (really Hitachi made) only $88 Hitachi sold their 3.5' division to Toshiba (forced to actually), so a Toshiba 3.5' is really a very well built reliable Hitachi 3.5' If you want the most reliable 3.5' HD, get a 2TB Toshiba, which is actually made by Hitachi (confused yet?) 😉 Adding the highest average lifespans and the best relationship between failures and market share, Hitachi can be regarded as the winner.Īll HD can and do crash and fail, its just statistical sampling in total (see graph above) Of the hundreds of Hitachi hard drives received, not a single one had failed due to manufacturing or design errors. Hitachi manufacturers the safest and most reliable hard drives, according to the Storelab study.

Hitachi is the winner in hard drive reliability survey: Most storage experts agree on the Hitachi 2.5' HGST Touro Mobile 1TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive $88 *This one is the BEST portable external 2.5' HD available that money can buy: ultraslim perfect for use with a notebook Quality 1TB drives are $50 per TB on 3.5' or $65 per TB on 2.5' ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1390020791&sr=8-3&keywords=toshiba+2tbīest options for the price, and high quality HD: There is no such thing as a 'LaCie hard drive', thats just the name on the box.īEST FOR THE COST, Toshiba 'tiny giant' 15mm thick 2TB drive (have several of them, lots of storage in tiny package) $100 There are only 4 HD makers on earth (Toshiba, Hitachi, WD, Seagate) LaCie contains SEAGATE drives. LaCie does NOT MAKE hard drives, NOR does OWC Anyone have experience with either drive? Just using one for Time Machine and the second for CCC. Decided against the mini drives and narrowed things down to these. Anybody have any experience with LaCie d2 Quadra or the OWC standard size drive.

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