Seagate had a nasty firmware bug in a particular generation a few years ago that gave them a bad reputation. That aside generally, all the manufacturers have around the same reliability/fail rates imo.
Blu-ray runs at 36Mbps, less than 10% of the available bandwidth of USB2. No need for USB3. Hard drives on the other hand have different sizes of buffer, different number of platters, different encoding, different access time.
As for brands, your choice is Seagate or Western Digital. Both have good points and bad points, model specific. The other brands do not count, obsolete, or being sold.
Thank you all so much for sharing your experiences with these brands, as usual, it seemed to be about 50/50 xD After doing some research online and reading this thread, and taking price into consideration, I went for the 2TB WD Elements external, I hope it does me well! :)
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