What brand is best for an external hard drive? 📦

5    16 Apr 2020 18:57 by u/Clarion

I'm looking for a new HDD. What brand and style is best for an external?

8 comments

4 u/kek 16 Apr 2020 19:45
Not Seagate so I've heard.
3 u/None 16 Apr 2020 18:58
USB3 drive caddy and SSD for performance. if you want prebuilt look for something western digital. i would stay away from seagate with their failure rates
2 u/Clarion [OP] 16 Apr 2020 19:05
Thanks!
3 u/Founder 16 Apr 2020 18:59
From what I read in the past Western Digital drives are a good balance between quality and affordability. I've been happy with their WD Elements and Easy Store line. Seagate has inferior quality and I avoid those.
3 u/None 16 Apr 2020 19:37
too many failures from seagate for me to ever trust them again with spinning disks
3 u/lenn_king 16 Apr 2020 21:50
WD Easystore. You can buy one on sale and it would be cheaper than buying an internal drive with the same capacity.
3 u/joeybronzoni 17 Apr 2020 05:00
I usually get an NVME M.2 SSD and purchase an enclosure for my external drives. Could spend around $120 give or take.
2 u/Cydramech 17 Apr 2020 15:28
I've always gone with Western Digital for any external hard drive (whereas for internal, I like Toshiba, WD, & Crucial, & Samsung), and will be replacing my aging WD portable drive soon (I should've done it a year ago since I don't like keeping anything around for more than 5 years at most).