Are WD My Passport or Seagate Portable drives more reliable?

Across the reviewers we read there is no clean winner. Verified-purchase reviewers at major retailers report high satisfaction with both lines, but specialist subreddits like r/DataHoarder are full of users who swear off one brand after a failure and switch to the other. The honest takeaway from the community consensus: any single external drive can fail, so the brand matters less than maintaining a second backup copy.