HGST sell the best drives. I used to buy lots of wd and seagate but the failure rates were too high
pssst....Hillary, you taking notes?
I bought HGST after losing two Crapgate ones. And the WDs that store config info on the drive itself rather than in nonvolatile memory are the worst of all.
HGST Used to be IBM before they sold that division
They made the deskstar brand which was known as the deathstar since the drives were awful (at the time)
HGST is Hitachi
Maxtor and Quantum were bought by Seagate
These days I just buy and use SSD drives, a lot faster and more reliable, so far
I buy nothing but Seagate only had one drive failure in 15 years.. Bought 10 to 15 drives!!!
I purchase a great many Seagate and WD drives, but considering their useage I am not overly concerned with them failing as I have several that are over ten years old and are still spinning reliably.
Then again, I do not put thme to the useage that these particular drives have been subjected to. so I am inclined to think that I should move things over to a more reliable brand especially when the data info on these drives is reputedly more in danger than I originally thought...
You get what you pay for I guess.