damn... I bought mine from amazon yesterday... :disappointed:
slayermatt
14 Dec 161#15
Literally just finished gutting an external i paid a quid more for to put in a PC... ugh.
deeplink
14 Dec 16#14
Thought Hitachi were pretty decent too, but also echo the HGST drives scoring well for reliability
kennethsross
14 Dec 161#13
HGST for the reliability win
c-traxx
14 Dec 16#11
Always thought Toshiba was among the good manufacturers when it comes to hard drives. Im on 4tb 7200 toshiba drive and its still going strong after 2 years. Its a loud drive but its fast.
neblogai
14 Dec 16#10
Bough my Toshiba 3TB DT01ACA300 3 years ago (Jan 2014) from Ebuyer for 78.99. Works without any problem, and it's not surprising- statistics (see Bargainmad post) show Toshiba are quite good, more reliable than WD or Seagate.
ukez
14 Dec 16#9
I bought one 3tb Toshiba drive years ago for less and directly from eBuyer, stuck it in a machine for someone along with a brand new SSD as a primary drive.
The person literally never wrote anything to the secondary 3tb Toshiba ever, it was merely powered on and off each time the system was used.
The day I went to do a reinstall for them and temporarily transfer their SSD data across to the 3tb it literally died.
Cold from me - ebuyer will always let you down if things go wrong
qbs to kevin1961
14 Dec 161#4
But at least you can rely on them. :smile:
ianbeany
14 Dec 166#2
All makes of drives have been known to fail after 6 months to be fair.
phantomhobo
14 Dec 162#1
Known Toshiba drives to fail after 6 months, personally I'd stick to WD or Samsung.
Quids to phantomhobo
14 Dec 16#5
Yep, my last two brand new Toshiba hd's failed on warranty expiry. Wasn't impressed tbh.
ahenners to phantomhobo
14 Dec 161#8
Samsung were acquired by Seagate a few years ago so good luck with that! Seagate doesnt have a great reputation for it's drives. I have some 7 year old Samsung drives still going strong. Not had any issue with Toshiba, but mine are only 2 years old.
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The person literally never wrote anything to the secondary 3tb Toshiba ever, it was merely powered on and off each time the system was used.
The day I went to do a reinstall for them and temporarily transfer their SSD data across to the 3tb it literally died.
That was just out of warranty too.