The best HDD is the one where you know exactly when it'll fail.

>>52190455
He ain't wrong

Just keep it until it dies and backup data which you dont want to lose, which is what you should do with every drive.

Speaking of seagates, older barracuda 7200.14 drives parked their heads aggressively and you could hear it very often. I recently got new 1TB Seagate manufactured just few months ago and looks like they have changed it, this drive doesnt park it's head aggressively, load/unload cycle value is same as startups for the drive.

>Buy drive from best buy
>Listens to newegg reviews

I had a 2TB Seagate that failed within 4 months.
Model st2000dm001 to be exact.

>>52190424
Eh, probably not, but do make sure you back it up.

As you should with all drives, regardless.

>>52192833
That's the one I have

Damn should have just springed for the caviar black

My credit card company has 1 year warranty extension... I've gotten several hard drives reimbursed after manufacturer warranty expired

WD seems to be a better brand, if you want real long last HDD go with the black edition, but i just buy the blue edition cuz muh shekels

>WD
worse than Seagate