If Backblaze yearly disk stats and my personal experience in our datacenter is anything of importance, WD is generally the more reliable disk brand for the last decade or so.
I remember an era where Seagate Constellation (enterprise disks) were so bad, I was replacing them a dozen per week.
Also, from my experience SanDisk didn't get tainted by WD acquisition. Their Extreme Pro SDs still as reliable as before, and their portable SSDs hit the speeds and reliability they advertise.
Every manufacturer makes a design error almost once a decade. Seagate did it, Maxtor did it, WD did it before (their drives were very finicky), however all big producers are in good shape now, from my experience. I can equally trust a Seagate IronWolf Pro or its WD equivalent, or a Samsung SSD and its SanDisk equivalent.
Problems happen, PCBs got revised, things got recalled. Everything is new, but nothing has changed.
I remember an era where Seagate Constellation (enterprise disks) were so bad, I was replacing them a dozen per week.
Also, from my experience SanDisk didn't get tainted by WD acquisition. Their Extreme Pro SDs still as reliable as before, and their portable SSDs hit the speeds and reliability they advertise.
Every manufacturer makes a design error almost once a decade. Seagate did it, Maxtor did it, WD did it before (their drives were very finicky), however all big producers are in good shape now, from my experience. I can equally trust a Seagate IronWolf Pro or its WD equivalent, or a Samsung SSD and its SanDisk equivalent.
Problems happen, PCBs got revised, things got recalled. Everything is new, but nothing has changed.