I have had failures of both Seagate and Western Digital so in my mind, there is really no difference between them.
Right now I have 4 different external hard drives. 2 are always connected. 1 of those does a nightly backup (Western Digital backup software). The other is a mirror of my digi scrapping and documents folders. The other 2 are for backup purposes only and I update them once a month. I have both Seagate and Western Digital in these 4 EHD's.
I did use a cloud backup for many years but had to quit using it because when it was working, it would cause my internet connection to go down. I could only do the backup during the night hours when I was sleeping and after getting a new computer due to the old one being fried during a power outage, it would have taken months to back everything up. Since I'm retired I had the time to do it myself to the EHD's and had it done is a couple of days. I also have had no connection issues since I stopped the service.
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