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Which are best; Seagate or WD external hard drives

Hi,

We are looking to buy a few external hard drives to store large amounts of data on them such as videos, pictures and other files.

These devices should have the following features;

- Compatible with Windows 10
- Reliable (store somewhere for months and data should be intact and should not easily be corrupted)
- Mobile
- Easily accessible
- Easy to use file system for moving files from and to external hard drive
- Capacity of 4TB or 5TB

It would be nice to have encrypted or password protected software on it but not essential.

Here are the external hard drives we are interested in;

Seagate Backup Plus Portable 4 TB External Hard Drive;
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0196J3UZ2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

WD My Passport 4 TB Portable Hard Drive;
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01LQQH842/ref=twister_B082VY1M2R?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Which would be best to get; Seagate or WD external hard drives?

Thanks,
Robbie

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Christian KAZADi

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Seth Simmons

both of those drives match what you are asking for
i would not keep the only copy on those drives as there is always a chance of failure
i have a couple seagate 5tb external drives for backups and has worked well

Hello There

I would avoid WD. Bad experience for the last three years with internal HDDs. They are very sensitive and it seemed that they are more prone to breakage than other HDDs. We had issues with these HDDs so we switched to Seagate and other brands and suddenly we didn't have to care about it. So in my case, I will always choose Seagate over WD.

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John Tsioumpris

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John Tsioumpris

Last but not least...besides all the budget you are planning to use to buy the HDDs just add some more money and buy a lifetime subscription of cloud cold storage...it's better to have a limited storage space that you will upload even lower quality photos/videos (compress,reencode,optimize... whatever) than nothing

nobus

Maybe time to consider an external SSD drive then?
https://www.techradar.com/news/best-portable-ssd

Arana (G.P.)

I Would avoid WD for this reason:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/lawsuits-and-pressure-precede-wd-clarifying-which-drives-use-smr-tech/ar-BB1609ZP

They werent honest and wouldnt clarify to the user what they were really getting.

Also, in I didnt like that PASSPORT and MYDRIVE usually have a protected partition that you cannot remove to claim the space that is advertized, so you end up with a smaller size that you bougth and cannot remove (only hide ) that partition

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Hello There

IP4IT Staff, can you close the question?