i've had quite a few drives over the years and usually had the biggest capacity drives available, until more recently as you can get bigger than 8tb but the prices are crazy high. i've used whatever brand had the cheapest bang for the buck and only had about 3 or 4problems, one drive DOA from WD, one drive knackered when i dropped it swapping drives, an SSD killed by me mucking about with the power cables, and a 1.5tb drive is the only one that slowly died on me after usage for years. i have all my data backed up and it's usually backed up on different drives by different manufacturers. some people will say never use X comnpany but in my experience no company is notably better or worse. the WD customer service was absolutely awful i must say, but i got a refund within a couple of weeks of delivery/return/refund process and lucked up by using the discount voucher on the purchase to get a bigger drive for only a little bit more money, so couldn't complain too much in the end