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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aroy" data-source="post: 319869" data-attributes="member: 16090">I use both Seagate and WD in my Desktop and as external backup drives. Both the brands are equally good, but have some lemons too. Normally in India we get 5 years warranty on Seagate drives, on WD it varies between 3 and 5.. For long term backup I would not use any thing more than 1TB. Even that size, with USB3 takes more than 8 hours to fill up.. I always use the slowest RPM drives available for back up as they fail much less than high speed drives.. For really critical data I use two dtives. Please note that for data integrity, HDD has to be read at least once a year. The safest method is to copy the data to another drive. That reads the whole drive and at the same time creates a fresh copy.</blockquote>