WD vs. Seagate for large internal SATA HDD?

[serr]

What's the consensus these days? Seagate = bad is the old advice. Is that still true? Most reviews I find don't seem to follow that opinion anymore. The advice seems to be to buy whichever enterprise model with a 5 year warranty is on sale right now. I had been using WD for larger data spinners. Between reading the reviews and the fact that I've now had two WD drives fail after just 3 or so years... Why was I going with WD again?

Any comments on the Seagate EXOS 10TB ST10000NM0016?

 

[Weaselboy]

I think drives are largely a commodity any more and I just buy whatever i can find on sale.

 

[ElectronGuru]

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Buy certain externals then remove the internals. Best Buy easystore are the favorite (wd). Then 321 your backups to secure the data itself.

 

[serr]

Another +1 for "what's on sale" then.

Can you find a better price buying in an enclosure or something? That aside, I'm more interested if anyone wants to say something bad about Seagate nowadays. Or something particularly good about WD.

I specifically want an internal able to take performance and reliability demands here and there and run 24/7.