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VERY STRONGLY disagree with this. There are plenty of studies on the Web that offer guidance on the differences between internal rotating disk hard drive mechanisms, and some of those differences are quite large:
2019 Hard Drive Reliability: Failure Rates Continue to Rise.............................
The most notoriously unreliable
external(note that I'm not talking about internal drives here) RDHD's come from Western Digital, Seagate, LaCie, and Iomega...............
If you want something reasonably priced, that is decent, go with:
Other World Computing Mercury Elite Pro.......................
If you want "the best" external hard drive, without having to pay an outlandish price (but you are willing to pay a bit more to have the best), I highly recommend a Glyph drive.
Glyph drives come with a 3-year warranty that includes advance replacement during the first year and it also includes data recovery services for 2 years!
I've known hundreds of users who have used Glyph drives over the past few years, and I've only heard from two people who have had one fail. That's a stunning record.