Why aren't you using a 12TB drive?

There was also the Barracuda 7200.11 series drives. Many of their products are fine, but they do produce more notable duds than any other company in the HDD market.

>work in a computer repair shop
>every failed hard drive that comes through is a Seagate
>still haven't seen WD
SeAgaTE hAVe leSs FaiLUreS

Cuz I'm poor and have to resort to shucking 8TB external drives.

Products are overpriced and have horrible reliability.They are the apple of storage.

> shitgate

Because I would need at least two for redundancy, and $600 is too much cum to guzzle at the moment.

why would I need 12TB for personal use?
I have a 256gb SSD and I only use like 10gb
grow up

>muh anecdotal evidence

They're the cheapest option most of the time?

>Seagate

>Seagate
It's 12TB for the first six months, after that it drops to 0.

yes, hard drives generally decrease in space as they are used, user

I don't hoard data.

I've been using a Seagate 8TB Archive HDD (shingle drive) since they came out. It's been the movies drive on my NAS and it just works.

I've had 6 Seagate HDs over my lifetime. All 6 of them failed in under 3 years or regular use.

>Seagate
I really shouldn't have to say more than that.

Windows XP won't recognize it

> a 12TB drive
> a drive
Bulk data suicide, you really want a RAID6 or at least RAID5 array of these.

At an appropriate drive count, most people probably have too much storage in an array like that if they use 12 or 16TB drives.

Because I'm using several RAID arrays that add up to 15TB.
Currently running a backup as I type this.

Seagates are really handy for testing the status of your stuff.
If you are willing to save it to a Seagate then you don't really want it.

Hey guys i was thinking of buying one of these, are they good?

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Why do you think they're cheap?

fpbp;opbtfo

it werks 4 me

not concerned about electricity use or heat are we?

I just bought a FireCuda, a hybrid SSD/HDD, thinking about using it to boot windows since I'm stupid and I have a 128GB m2 SSD

I work in a repair shop, and the majority I see are WD's :((

Price and cause there is no need for me to expand storage capacity. I still got 9.7 TB to use first. (21.7 TB total). Hopefully by the time I do need to expand those 12TB drives will be only $100. (or the 20TB 3.5 drives will be only $200)

They have the audacity to charge the same price as thier competitors knowing damn well the shit they are pushing out is unstable.They should be charging much less for thier products.

They're alright as far as I can tell, but never trust "one" drive with anything that you actually want to keep for a while.

Because I've never used more than 800gb in my life

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Just a reminder; FreeNas/ZFS is your friend. If you value your data, use it.

What was up with those drives? I had 6 of them and all but one failed within a couple of years, the last of them finally died last month.

Because they are?

pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#sort=ppgb&page=1
diskprices.com/?disk_types=internal_hdd

[citation needed]

Snapraid is a good option too if the content is mostly static/unchanging.

Just Seagate QA at work.

Thailand floods fucked everything up if I remember right

Well the first time I heard how bad Seagate was is the Xbox 360 in which Seagate harddrives caused a great number of failures, so much so that it inflated the numbers that people thought was RRoD.

Then problems with 1.5 GB
Problems with 3 GB

Now they fill the drives with helium.
So buy one and I hope it works out for you.

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Those stats are from ~2014, here's some more recent ones.

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The whole thing, CPUs and RAM and all, only use 180 watts on idle. The combined gas and electric bill is $70/month on average.

I can't download that much futa porn

As long as they're easy store 8tb with the FAX sku nothing wrong with it.

Not really worried about data loss; got 3 servers and 1 nas. Each runs some flavor of Raid. Each has a complete up to date copy of all data. Only one server stays powered on 24/7. Rest stay shutdown till needed (which I hope never happens cause two of them act as "archive boxes" - Last resort type thing). So all things being equal I can lose 4 drives total and have zero redundancy but still data is intact or lose 8 drives total but at that point I'm fucked.

except backblaze accepted bribes from hgst to fuck the numbers.

I dunno, I have a 200gb partition as / and only 5% is filled by arch. I even installed 0ad which is 2gb to fill up space and I have yet to reach 10%.

> Mfw trying to be bloat but just can't do it

I actually resized it to 100gb and installed Gentoo on the other 100gb just to fill space up

HGST is owned by WD so either they're retarded or you are.

Funny, I have a pile of WDs at work but just three Seagates. My home machine is rocking a 3 year old 500gb Seagate HDD too. I'm only replacing it this week because it's old.

I dual boot windows and still can't fill my 500gb disk up.

/dev/sda6 40G 28G 11G 73% /
/dev/sda7 147G 48G 92G 35% /home
/dev/sda1 508M 70M 439M 14% /boot
/dev/sda8 96G 27G 70G 28% /mnt/data
/dev/sda3 176G 44G 132G 25% /mnt/windows

Most of the data in / is from the package cache. I never clean it.

They only have Mybook 8TB in my country.

Seagate is terrible. Of all the hard drive brands I've owned, the highest failure rate is Seagate by a long shot.

Not sure about their other drives but I have the old 3TB drives in my server. None have died yet. Most of them are ~5 years old.

>180 watts on idle
What drives?

Hard drive prices have been the same for two years now.

I was hoping to expand my 2x2 to 3x2 ZFS array with two brand new 10TB hard drives.

Seagate Constellation2. 15 of them.

What is the quietest 4-8 tb HDD?

I don't care about speed, I just don't want to hear it.

Just install some big-ass fans and you'll never hear it.

I finally have a SMART warning from a 1TB Seagate drive I bought in 2011. It's the first Seagate I've "lost" since a 10GB I bought in 2000 sprouted FS-visible bad sectors a bit over a decade ago and got filed on the pile. I've never had the problems that everybody else claims about Seagates.

I have noticed the pattern here is "I don't actually have a Seacrate because Seacrates are evil, I'll just dump this graph from some random datacentre". Anecdotal, I know, but my piles of dead WDs, Hitachis and Toshibas is are definitely taller than the Seagate pile.

The only thing I'll agree with from the posters who've never actually had a Seagate, is that they're loud, and not particularly good performers in the

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Prolly WD Blue(rebranded green) or Red, 5400rpm will likely be quieter than 7200rpm. I think the 8tb Red is a Helium drive so it'll be quieter.

I ran a SMART check with Crystal Disk info and my 4 year old HDD shows caution as the health status.

Should I be worried? How often do you guys replaces your hard drives?

I can personally vouch that WD Blues are quiet as a mouse; Seagate's 5400-5900rpm drives are quiet when idle, but have more "clackety-clack" on access.

But one would hope such slow-spindled drives would be quiet. But I'm probably not the one to ask - I can't hear the VelociRaptor in my media server most of the time, and it's two feet from my daily.

>How often do you guys replaces your hard drives?
When they break. This is why backup.

Funny, I RMA servers and most of the failed drives I get sent back are WD, and the Seagate ones pass testing 90% of the time.

I would still rather have a WD drive over a Seagate drive however.

>muh loud
Unironically kill thyself nigger.

He's probably a poorfag with his computer in the bedroom.

I burn all my valuable data that I don't want to lose to blu-rays.

>he doesn't sleep in his computer room so he can immediately jump on Jow Forums after waking up

get a load of this faggot

obviously you don'r have enough hentai

>Seagate
Because I'd like to keep my data intact

List from best to worste:
WD
Toshiba
Memegate
Samsung
other shit
Prove me wrong

Between 2010 and now, all(7 so far) of my Seagate drives that I've had in that time have died on me. Meanwhile a single WD drive has died out of 8. I have a WD Black that's been running almost 24/7 since 2011 and a pair of 2 year old Reds being used as media storage for Plex still running strong.

The Seagate drives were all used for backups//general storage and died within 1-2 years, while the WD drives are heavily used and have lasted years.

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don't forget all hdd manufacturers ship their products with micro-embedded operating systems physically built into the drives, impossible to remove, capable of caching data from your OS and transmitting it back home to alphabet agencies. if you don't believe me look it up on google for 10 minutes and have your mind literally fucking blown. none of your data is private and all security is circumvented. gg sell your fsf approved thinkpad and but a modern botnet book because there's no such thing as privacy.

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calm down snowden

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>implying said agencies would be willing to use and risk confirming the existence of such a low-level backdoor to look at your anime tiddies

>we have nothing to hide so its ok
good goy. you are castrated

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Why aren't you sucking my dick right now?

Mine's been just fine all these years, luckily. I'd say that most of these drives have failed by now though.

"Those sure are a lot of reads/writes from a LUKS partition."

>gg sell your fsf approved thinkpad and but a modern botnet book because there's no such thing as privacy.

>we have nothing to hide so its ok
>good goy. you are castrated

What Did He Mean By This?

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I've never used more than 320
I have 168 GB of free space as of right now.

ordered a 10TB WD red for my NAS since they were 25% off.
It's good to have more space than you'd need.

seagates dont come with active noise cancellation

How are the wd blue 4tb? I just bought one to watch old videos on.

Because realistically I have about 50GB of data I consider somewhat valuable.

I use 12 TB vdevs (3 4TB hgst drives) with one drive of redundancy in a zfs pool. I have zero desire for a single 12 TB drive whose failure could destroy tons of data.

The only thing I store a lot of is Anime, and I have 5TB spread across 3 different drives. I'll wait until 10+TB drives are a little more reliable before I pull the trigger.

>seagate 7200.11 died after 5 months, it was all over in tech news
>warranty is alright, replaced with 7200.12
>died again after year in a half
>bought samsung Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ
>8 years and still working
I miss samsung hdds before got acquired by shitgate

>bought a random toshiba 750gb drive 7 years ago
>tossed at anywhere throughout years, lots of data written, read
>still werks

I have a pair of 12-year-old Hitachi 160GBs that work fine, the first SATA drives I got. Glorious Nippon platters, magnetized 1,000 times.

get the x300 instead

Does anyone recommend WD my passport 3tb or 4tb?

I prefer using several smaller HDDs.