What's your honest opinion about Toshiba hard disks?

Their laptop HDDs were nice and quite, at least before the acquisition.

There's a reason they went bankrupt

>>61351575
Been using one for like 5 years, no issues

Solid choice if you don't want to pay the WD premium for 7200 rpm drives nor the subpar reliability of Seagate. All my internal 3.5" drives are Toshiba.

>>61351575
They are made using mostly Hitachi R&D, because U.S. courts required WD to give Toshiba assets to provide for competition.

Their warranties are longer than WD and Seagate, and the price point are appealing too. I like them as a brand - they look like the only thing going right with the company.

>>61351575
The 3TB one is loud as fuck
The 2TB and smaller ones don't seem to have this problem for whatever reason

Otherwise it's bretty gud

>>61351575
using 2 toshiba hdds for years at home, 0 issues so far.

I work in a cinema, we have 5 screens, each screen server has 4 hard disks. All Toshiba, 0 issues since 2013 and they are on >12 hours a day, 364 days a year.

I had no problems with them.

Seagate though, 5.

5. Not kidding. 5 dead drives within less than a year. I wish I was kidding. I used WD, Toshiba, Maxtor and Samsung, never had them fail like this.

>>61353334

It's all luck of the draw I've had about 6 WD's go bust to one Seagate. Old Seagate was goat. New drives seem to have shittier build across the board.

>>61353559
I take the position in which I'm not gonna deny that people have had a good experience with Seagate, but since I seem to be cursed with Seagate drives failing on me I won't buy any more.

WD is the default choice
Toshiba is knowledgeable choice
Seagate is DOA, disposable, pleb choice

I've got four 4 TB Toshiba drives in my NAS.
2 are about a year old, the other 2 a few months.
They do make quite a bit of noise when they're being accessed, but no issues so far. Pretty good for the price

>>61351575
>bought a transcend portable hdd back in 2007/2008 which turned out to be a Toshiba in disguise
>the year is 2017 and it's still kicking
Though I don't often plug it in, got like 1700 on-time hours on it