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People now say NOT to use WD Greens, since they will attempt to spin down at every possible opportunity, instead get the Reds as they are simply built for a NAS going into hibernation mode.

I've read that the Greens can be altered to disable the auto spin down, search around. But I'd never buy one. I like reading reviews before I purchase something, and all the bad reviews on NewEgg about the Greens scare the crap out of me.

The original Samsung 2TB drives were the bomb! Before Seagate took over.

But I still trust in Western Digital. I've purchased hundreds of WD Blue drives for laptops and desktops throughout the years, mainly 320GB and 500GB, and only had between 5 and 10 that failed and had to come back to the shop. I'm confident when I put a WD Blue drive in a customer's computer today.

I tell you, what I do see fail and come in the shop all the time lately are the Seagate 1 & 1.5 TB drives. They seem to form bad sectors within 1 to 3 years of service. I see them mostly in HPs and some other OEM brands.

I used to purchase Seagate years ago, but after a rash of bad drives, I finally found a stable brand. The Seagate laptop drives seem to suck more than any other, even more than their desktop drives.

Toshiba drives are the next in line of failures. Then probably Hitachi, Fujitsu, then Western Digital.

Of course all hard drives have their failures. I just like picking the models that have the least.