Hi. I plan on replacing my 500GB seagate disk with a 1TB disk (moving a linux installation between disks is rather easy). I plan on doing this when Linux kernel 4.6 is released because that will be the next time I power off (or restart) my computer. This hopefully well be within a week or two.

SMART data says over 4TB written and over 1.5TB read on the current disk and still in excellent shape. It has, however, reached 40% full space and I would really prefer to stay under 25% so an upgrade is needed.

Anyway, my choices are WD, seagate and toshiba. Which is more durable under heavy load? I am going to buy the disk now and wait till next kernel update to install it.
Which brand do you guys recommend?
I have all three brands(toshiba is the oldest), never had a problem with any of them (gaming/coding/rendering).
I recently got a 1TB 7200rpm WD from pcandparts, I'm using it mainly for gaming and coding and I like it so far.
Btw my linux is on the seagate(it's a 2.5inch 5400rpm)
Under linux it's not heavy loaded though.
I think I need a 7200RPM disk.
There will be very heavy usage. compiling weekly gcc snapshot, weekly libreoffice snapshot, daily firefox build, etc... so I need something that can last as much as this one did (4 years).
Which one do you think fits my criteria, scorz?
6 days later
Ok, I got a WD. Thank you scorz.