*click* *click* *click*

>buying seagate
>ever
>under any circumstance

So i guess i should
Any suggestions?

Seagate is meh overall, the 3TB in the OP is infamous like the "Death"star from Hitachi long ago

Nah, I've used the same 2T from them for literal years, instadead seagates are a meme

>Bloody baby, this is how you do it!

CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR P0RN COLLECTION!

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>Had a whole 1T nearly full of porn
>Died the same year I got it
life is cruel and I despise my lot some times

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>shut down computer
>forget to unmount external hdd
>usb still has power and drive doesn't spin down for some raisin
>begin the clickening

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just fix it user

youtube.com/watch?v=G_gKIvDgBHs

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can we just go back to big fuck off computers?
I want to be able to tear my system down like a car and fix everything myself

You can
Just buy uber expensive shit and shove it in a full size

I feel your pain, my bro.

*drip* *drip*

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2TB is fine.
I vaguely remember(?) RMA'ing a DOA Seagate (fine afterward), can't remember if it was this or ST2000DL003 which I like to nickname "Stoodle".

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My 1TB Seagate drive has been going strong for 5+ years

stop triggering me you cunt

lmao@urlife, retard, you decided to use seagate? fucking return it, mongoloid!

Is that you Tony?

*click*

You just jinxed yourself.

>that time in 2012 when I bought like 4 seagate 3TB drives
Only 1 still around all these years later, of course seeing as it's proved itself and become the fucked up seagate Champion I now keep all of my important non-mirrored data on there.

Absolutely. This shit just died on me barely 6 months past warranty. Le WD Red reliability meme.

>That is some nice archive you have there. It would be a shame if something would happen to it. *scritching noises*

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*dies suddenly with no warning*

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I went to that computer history museum in Mountain View, CA and saw the IBM 305 RAMAC functioning live in person. There were a couple techs working on it. Neat to see the old pneumatic arm go up and down on a rail, and then it would extend in and out. This all took seconds to access data. SECONDS!

It definitely made a lot of clicks

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ALL HDDs will die. Accept it and deal with it. Create backups.

Everything important is backed up to multiple locations, but I put a lot of installers and downloaded stuff on there for convenience. No point in backing THAT up, but still annoying if the drive just dies. I've rarely had anything die on me so maybe I was just lucky.

>still annoying if the drive just dies
But that's unfortunately exactly what they do they just die. If that annoys you you should put it on a RAID6. You may still lose the data but at least no single drive crash will bother you.

*schlopschlop*

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brainlet here. is optical media storage already peaked at 4.7 gb and cant be improved anymore?

Chrrrrrrrrrrr

Dual-layer Blu-ray disc holds 50 GB.

whooooooooooooosh

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*PSSSSSH* SHIT, AH CRAP UNPLUG IT, FUCK *BZZZT* FUCK GOD DAMN IT *POP* CHEAP ASS CHINESE PIECE OF SHIT, FUCK *ooga booga*

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I bet you bought another WD after that.

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>tfw bought wd green 1tb
>started clicking within 6 months
>oh fuck my ass
>lasts six years before the motherboard dies instead.

Swoosh

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does it woosh ? i bought two of these yesterday...

>that noticeable sag in the graphics card

Ummmh

>always used WD drives
>they never broke down on me
>bought a WD Blue
>crapped out after a year
>bought a Seagate
>still going strong after 7 years
brand loyalty is a meme, you either get a drive from a faulty batch or you don't

>that constant BZZZZZZZZZT sound when the bearings start to wear out

>sagging graphics card

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Just make sure you have your stuff backed up.
On a different disk.

i can't relate to the hdd meme
my first ever hdd which is now almost 20 years old still works fine and is used in my mom's pc
i've used literally every brand imaginable over the years and have never ever had even the slightest issue with any hdd

am i just a lucky cunt?

>people thought DTLA deathstars were bad
>but then AVERs turned to be even worse after a couple years

We had 25 or so new PCs with them in 2002 and by like 2008 the mortality rate was at 100%.

same here
I had one drive break on me but that's cause I got swindled buying it from an online seller

>am i just a lucky
I'd say yeah. But that's pretty cool your one HDD is 20 years old. Can you share the specs/manufacturer with us?

>work for a big company
>every time I have to buy a hard drive IT add a manual note to the purchase request
>no seagate

I bought 10 WD Green 3TB back in 2011 and by 2017 all of them where dead. From the 2 8TB Seagate Archive HDDs i bought in 2015 only one is still working. A WD blue in my laptop also crashed.

>am i just a lucky cunt?
Yes

*ᶜˡᶦᶜᵏ* *ᶜˡᶦᶜᵏ* *ᶜˡᶦᶜᵏ*

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*schlop* *schlop* *schlop* *schlop* *schlop*

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>WD Red
holy fucking shit. I got 3TB Reds and had it for over 3 years. Am I still fucked?

>using HDDs

is this 2001?

WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO BUY THEN

Where do you store your backups?

PIC SO RELATED I DIED. 1 Seagate and never again.

backups to what exactly

B-backupping my 8TB porn drive? I don't have money for all that.

>* *
>Loads before you even switch it on

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*clicking sound stops*

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Depends how much you use them. External HDDs that are not used constantly will last for decades unless you are retarded. If they are constantly writing/reading it's only a matter of time or being unlucky/lucky.

Sag does literally nothing to the card.

BDXL discs hold 100gb

Not the card, but it will fuck up the PCIe slot.

No, it won't, if you don't move the case around.

Nigga please...
youtube.com/watch?v=fmernvZLCeQ

The constant stress over the years will eventually crack solder joints, causing stability issues if not outright hardware failure. Lots of motherboards have died this way since the early/mid 2010s. Slots being reinforced on motherboards now isn't just because of the occasional retard pulling out a card before releasing it.

Many such cases.

both sound too rare and expensive to be sold in my country

I don't know what you people do to these things. Every HDD I've owned for the past 20 years has outlived its system.

BSY BSY BSY BSY BSY BSY BSY BSY BSY BSY

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BRRRRRRRbrrrrrrrBRRRRRRRbrrrrrrrBRRRRRRbrrrrr

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CLICK CLICK BOOM

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*produces mustard gas and rapes your children*

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>just plugged in two of my dead drives that had been beeping previously to make a vocaroo for this bread
>both of them work perfectly
It's not fair senpais

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There isn't a reason, why I shouldn't store movies, music and older games on a HDD, instead of a SSD.

HGST is a company of Western Digital. I don't trust this picture, without a serious source.

Optical disc technology can hit 1TB and beyond but it's too late now and no-one gives a fuck anymore and whatever standard/hardware won't be ubiquitous enough.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc#Fourth-generation

yah no shit

delet this right fucking now

*SCHREEEEEEEECH*

vvvrrrRRRR *CLICK*... vvvrrrRRRR *CLICK*... vvvrrrRRRR *CLICK*

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I really hope not this is the longest my desktop has ever been shut down because I couldn't bring it home for winter break

*makes a loud buzzing noise for 5 minutes then stops until tomorrow*

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Perform the time transport ritual before data is permanently lost NOW!

Maxtor master race

*500 fps*
rcrcrcrcrcrrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrcrccrcrcrcr

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my 3TB broke in a year so probably.

is it important to screw in your hard drive? I don't have another slot to screw it in. if it makes some noise, i don't care, but i don't want to damage the drive

my 2tb just had its 5th birthday and its fine.

my backup drive is a 2 year old toshiba, so if it dies then whatever