I had a wd failure & my friend had Seagate failure - yet we both got replacements with data restored from their service centres. ?️ Both offer same warranties of 3 years. ?️ Regarding price WD is a bit costlier to Seagate for same capacity. ?️I read somewhere that Seagate offers better speeds & WD better reliability but i don’t feel it’s always true as speeds depend upon a number of factors like type of files being transferred & as for reliability of both brands - It is hard to doubt for both brands of repute. ?️Now both are giant reputed american storage brands & preference is mostly based upon personal usage experiences. This is again a topmost struggle making a decision. ?️ So for majority bulk backup - HDD are a better option to costlier SSDs. While none of the mechanical HDDs can reach the blazing fast speeds of SSDs in excess of 500 MB/s R/W, The HDDs definitely offer a better value for money per MB of storage.Īlso if data is corrupted in a SSD its almost never retrievable while in a HDD, there is always a hope depending upon extent of damage. ?️ Now, whenever we opt to go for a new external Disk purchase, the following challenges are encountered & if you are planning to invest thousands in purchase - my detailed review, even though a bit lengthy is worth reading.
I like to keep backups of backups of my lifetime collected data & thus have over 15 TB of external hard disks in my arsenal with a dominant share of Western digital disks (both passport & elements) & few others like Transcend, Samsung SSD & a Seagate ( old usb 2.0 ).