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		voltagex_ on Feb 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015 I've had two Seagate drives "fail" recently after <2 months - the drive is fine but the (OEM) USB3 enclosure is dead. No idea who manufactures those for Seagate but I'm not impressed.

hinkley on Feb 17, 2016 [–]

Similar experience with WD. I bought a western digital USB drive. It failed, I RMA'd it for a new one. It failed. A year later I bought a bigger one, and it failed after another year.

I cracked open the enclosures and the drives are just fine. I still use them for backups with no errors.

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