It’s difficult to answer this question because the answer is based on the user’s experience with a drive. Users tend to prefer the drives of one manufacturer to others, without having tried the competition.

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Hard drive study

For those who are interested in reading more about failure patterns with hard drives, we highly recommend reading the Google Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population paper. This paper goes into great details how hard drives fail and the typical causes of hard drive failures.

If you are more interested in the speed of a drive than the amount of data it can hold, we highly recommend you consider upgrading to an SSD.

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