So then you have no personal experience with Seagate. Good thing, because they don't fail. From experience, I've had one baddies from over 150 buys here at the DC. Nice self stroke of yourself, but do it in private next time. It's no joy for us trying to help.
Nice attempt at deflecting, but I've had:
Seagate 7200.9, 10, 11, and 12 Barracuda drives, all 7200rpm IIRC.
The 11 failed after light use in under a year, and I sold the rest off as quickly as possible (the 9 and 10 coming from my gf's lightly-used desktop and surviving for ~2 years). Seagate used to be better but their quality has fallen off; same with everybody else but Seagate seems to have fallen hardest. They also offer the shortest warranties in the industry, which is not confidence inspiring. Nor is how they treated customers over the 7200.11 fiasco.
And Backblaze found that Hitachi 5k3000s were more reliable for them than Seagates and WDs.
In any case there are factual issues with your rec, including form factor and pricing, not just brand and warranty duration. For instance, I suspected the reason OP asked about that drive model was because it was a HDD specifically marketed as being portable. You could have made the same inference, or at least answered the OP's direction more directly, yet you ignored that and went right into recommending a drive of dubious warranty length at extra cost (internal + enclosure rather than Seagate's all-in-one for cheaper), and you did so without considering OP's portability needs.
I'm sorry if you take offense but I've noticed a trend of your giving bad/incomplete advice, not just in this post but others. Please treat it as constructive criticism (my suggestion that you do more research before "advising" others).
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