Just saying that I havent had any problems using WD drives under UNIX-type systems. Maybe WD Greens (but those are shit anyway)? IDK Blues, Blacks and Red-s haven't shitted on me yet under Linux (CentOS, Fedora & Debian is what I use for different computers/servers)

I only found an unusual amount of complaints concerning that topic, in some cases the HDD wasn't usable under linux and in other cases the HDD died extremely fast.
I'm new to Linux (Mint) so I didn't have a chance to test it myself but I didn't want to risk it.

I think all brands are equally good nowadays, regarding durability.

For performance, it's "you get what you paid for"

Are there really HDD's that don't function with Linux?

Seems like it, I don't know why though.

Then I wouldn't worry about it :). You can use rubber screws or a silicon enclosure if you notice excessive vibrations, but to be honest I don't know if it's something you encounter with internal HDDs from Toshiba.

I have a WD Green and have been using it under Linux without issues for years. Perhaps it's only a particular model or batch with issues?

I don't think there are any to be honest. The only problem I can think of is with 4TB+ hard drives that have to be setup with GPT in order for their entire capacity to become available.

There is no issue in Linux with any hard drive brand in particular.

It's always a bit of a luck of the draw with hard-drives.

Been looking for an external one recently and went with a Toshiba Canvivo 5TB, next to my WD 1TB which had been in use just fine for years.

Went for the Toshiba based on this: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q3-2015/ - particularly the graph down in the article (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/blog_q3stats_manufacturer-e1444680042365.jpg) that indicates that Toshiba's Quality Control seems relatively stable compared to WD / Seagate. Not quite as failure free as Hitachi, but significantly cheaper, too.

That said there's a lot less data points about Toshiba in that failure graph.

One thing to note about the Canvivo external one is that it take a bit longer to wake up again from powered down state, compared to my WD hard drive. Doesn't bother me particularly as it really is just a backup page that's only occasionally driven.

No problem whatsoever with it under Linux Mint. And it survived a fairly long postal trip just fine, too. Sent it to an address in UK to have some data backed up on it, first, then on from there to my home address in Germany.