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<blockquote data-quote="RadDave" data-source="post: 1604634" data-attributes="member: 234411">Hello - I'm sure that you'll be getting a LOT of varied opinions, but keep in mind that 'failure rates' apply to monitoring many hard drives and some will fail regardless of brand - you might just be the one that has that potential HD that fails before expected; thus, features and cost might be just as important reasons for your purchase(s).I've read that linked review before and have put the two graphs in the post below - from their experience, seems that you should go w/ the WD and/or the Hitachi HDs.&nbsp; For myself, I have two 1 TB Seagate HDs doing my 'Time Machine (TM)' backups on my MBPro &amp; iMac - I've been thinking of adding another HD TM to each of my computers (sort of like a pseudo-RAID 1) - NOW, I also have CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) on a 1 TB OWC HD (last pic below) - these are a little more expensive and I don't know how the failure numbers compared w/ those presented (maybe our other members can help) - THUS, if I setup second TM backups, I just might go w/ OWC - don't know yet?&nbsp; Dave <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />ADDENDUM:&nbsp; For those who may be running second TM backups on their computers, I'm assuming just plugging the second HDs into a USB slot and selecting TM backup is sufficient - should different names be used?&nbsp; Thanks..[ATTACH=full]20942[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]20943[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]20944[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RadDave, post: 1604634, member: 234411"] Hello - I'm sure that you'll be getting a LOT of varied opinions, but keep in mind that 'failure rates' apply to monitoring many hard drives and some will fail regardless of brand - you might just be the one that has that potential HD that fails before expected; thus, features and cost might be just as important reasons for your purchase(s). I've read that linked review before and have put the two graphs in the post below - from their experience, seems that you should go w/ the WD and/or the Hitachi HDs. For myself, I have two 1 TB Seagate HDs doing my 'Time Machine (TM)' backups on my MBPro & iMac - I've been thinking of adding another HD TM to each of my computers (sort of like a pseudo-RAID 1) - NOW, I also have CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) on a 1 TB OWC HD (last pic below) - these are a little more expensive and I don't know how the failure numbers compared w/ those presented (maybe our other members can help) - THUS, if I setup second TM backups, I just might go w/ OWC - don't know yet? Dave :) ADDENDUM: For those who may be running second TM backups on their computers, I'm assuming just plugging the second HDs into a USB slot and selecting TM backup is sufficient - should different names be used? Thanks. . [ATTACH=full]20942[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]20943[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]20944[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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