Current Events > External hdd for ps4. Seagate or western digital?

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Both are 4tb portable ones so no power supply.

The Seagate one has more reviews that mention it failing on them, but apparently is a tad faster than the wd one. Both are same price.
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Western Digital

I've had bad times with Seagate HDD's on PC's but it's just my experience, I coulda just been unlucky
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I have a Seagate 2TB for my PS4 and works great
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Seagate one:

http://amzn.to/2nIFHZE

Western digital one:

http://amzn.to/2EDPTuO

Both have good reviews but I see a lot of reviews mentioning failure on the Seagate one, with very few mentioning it on the wd one.
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The wd one also kind of matches the ps4 well too lol
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Bump
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Final bump
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Went with the WD one. I've had goo history with their external drives
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gooey
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WD, they do not fail often, seagate has had a number of reviews saying how it failed after a relatively short amount of time.
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I've had one Seagate and it lasted a pretty long time
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Does WD still have that sleep problem that screwed up PS3s?

I recommend Toshiba.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Does WD still have that sleep problem that screwed up PS3s?

I recommend Toshiba.

Not that i can tell. They specifically tell you to go with the portable ones powered via USB over the desktop ones with power supplies
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Offworlder1 posted...

WD, they do not fail often, seagate has had a number of reviews saying how it failed after a relatively short amount of time.

That was my issue. One review said 2 months and it failed lol
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In my experience, the decision between those two brands pretty much comes down to which one you can find at a better price. But I'd pick those two over any other brand.
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DarkTransient posted...

In my experience, the decision between those two brands pretty much comes down to which one you can find at a better price. But I'd pick those two over any other brand.

They were both same style, same capacity, and same price. So I went for the one without the failure rate reviews.
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pres_madagascar posted...

DarkTransient posted...

In my experience, the decision between those two brands pretty much comes down to which one you can find at a better price. But I'd pick those two over any other brand.

They were both same style, same capacity, and same price. So I went for the one without the failure rate reviews.

I don't blame you. I went to Amazon and read the Seagate reviews and WHEW. It was pretty scary and I wasn't even shopping for one
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Vyrulisse posted...

pres_madagascar posted...

DarkTransient posted...

In my experience, the decision between those two brands pretty much comes down to which one you can find at a better price. But I'd pick those two over any other brand.

They were both same style, same capacity, and same price. So I went for the one without the failure rate reviews.

I don't blame you. I went to Amazon and read the Seagate reviews and WHEW. It was pretty scary and I wasn't even shopping for one

That was my thought. So many reviews saying it died within 6 months. One said within 2 months.

The western digital one didn't have shit like that.
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pres_madagascar posted...

Vyrulisse posted...

pres_madagascar posted...

DarkTransient posted...

In my experience, the decision between those two brands pretty much comes down to which one you can find at a better price. But I'd pick those two over any other brand.

They were both same style, same capacity, and same price. So I went for the one without the failure rate reviews.

I don't blame you. I went to Amazon and read the Seagate reviews and WHEW. It was pretty scary and I wasn't even shopping for one

That was my thought. So many reviews saying it died within 6 months. One said within 2 months.

The western digital one didn't have shit like that.

Yeah, I think you made the right choice. The only drive I had fail on me was a Seagate one. It was the one infamous 3TB model, though. I find it funny that my first gen WD 1TB Green drive is still running and those were known to be bad too. I don't use it for anything besides cold storage of unimportant files these days, though.
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If you got it off amazon could you pm me the URL, I'm trying to get one in the next month or two since I have to keep deleting games over and over to play others.

FFXV with the dlc took up more space than FFXIV, an mmo with dozens of patches and two expansions.
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gunplagirl posted...

If you got it off amazon could you pm me the URL, I'm trying to get one in the next month or two since I have to keep deleting games over and over to play others.

FFXV with the dlc took up more space than FFXIV, an mmo with dozens of patches and two expansions.

http://amzn.to/2EDPTuO

I got the 4tb one, it comes in 1tb,2tb,and 3tb too
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Sweet. :)
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WD failure rate is actually slightly higher than Seagate right now.

Itoldyaso posted...

WD failure rate is actually slightly higher than Seagate right now.

For these particular types and capacities, the reviews are pointing to the opposite. May be different for internal ones or desktop ones. But I can't just ignore those reviews.
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https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2017/
Seagate is garbage almost every time these annual stats come up
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I've been seeing Seagate in stores and kind of assumed they were the new madkatz. :/ seems I was right.
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Toshiba, always.

I bought a Seagate 2tb SSHD for my laptop, because the original 1tb wasn't enough space. Hearing about Seagate failing so often has me worried about losing all that content. Since I live in the boonies with no high speed internet access outside of data capped mobile plans, it'd take a lot of trips to Starbucks to redownload it.
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Esrac posted...

I bought a Seagate 2tb SSHD for my laptop, because the original 1tb wasn't enough space. Hearing about Seagate failing so often has me worried about losing all that content. Since I live in the boonies with no high speed internet access outside of data capped mobile plans, it'd take a lot of trips to Starbucks to redownload it.

It's just this particular portable drive I was lookin at. I can't speak for any others.
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hey how are maxter hdds? it's so cheap
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do not buy maxtor holy shit
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flussence posted...

do not buy maxtor holy shit

That bad?
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maxtor is to hard disks what VIA is to graphics cards
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For some reason, my 160 gig Maxtor harddrive still works perfectly, no corrupted sector whatsoever, but I have stopped using it a long time ago.

ive been through 2 dead seagate hdds, they were internal though
wd has never died on me
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Wd has never done me wrong.
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