He buys seagate hard drrives

my seagates came with my computers =(
one is warning, other ok

my toshiba in laptop is kill

wd ide 40GB is fine

2.5" drives are garbage no matter the manufacturer though. Way too fragile even before the corners get cut. It doesn't help they're also the most abused.

Brainlet who lives under a rock here. Can some one explain all the seagate hate?

I've had Seagate drives for a couple of years now and haven't failed me yet. OP is clearly retarded and trolling.

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Man I remember back in the day when Seagate used to be a good brand.

>wd
Worst company out of all. Toshiba is slightly iffy as well. Seagate is better than WD in the last few years. WD has 3-5X failure rate comparatively.

>backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2018/

People are delusional and stick to 2012 thailand flooding incident and think this is the be-all-end-all stat for HDD reliability. Seagate has improved leaps and bounds over WD since then and is now very close to HGST.

oh shit i didnt know

The nice thing about seagate drives, is they have that built-in recovery functionality that you can access by hooking a serial TTL cable to the debug port on the drive. It even has a nice menu interface for performing recovery operations out of band from the normal drive interface.

The bad thing is that you might actually need to use it.

this is the video OP stole that from btw
>youtube.com/watch?v=6b0JcNqkZrk

>he still uses hard drives
lol granpa

I've had such terrible luck with HDDs over the years. Stop me from taking the optical media pill (tape drives are too expensive.)

tape drives are for reliable archive storage, not for your porn/music/movie collection. get a couple enterprise drive and use raid if you fear losing so much data.

>Stole
Get the fuck out of here faggot

until you can get >6TB SSDs for cheap, there's no other choice

HGST is dead.

This.
>tfw go to pick up external hard drive and the only ones available in my area were western crap and seashit

>he buys harddrives
lmao

Seagate had a major fuck up a few years ago and they had massive failure rates. They also knew about the problem and did nothing.

There's really only two choices for HDD and it's Seagate or WD. At least for SSD there's Samsung but buying a 6TB SSD is insane.

>storing shit in the cloud

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>he fell for the SAD meme
See you posting crying wojaks in couple months

Use magnetic tapes

This. It's honestly hit or miss. You just have to pick your poison. So far nothing's wrong with my WD drive and adata SSD.

WD definitely has had a better track record and they also bought out Hitachi a while ago, so they've been using their tech in the latest HDDs too.

> Seagate had a major fuck up a few years ago and they had massive failure rates. They also knew about the problem and did nothing.
western digital also pulled the same stunts in the past. it's why have distrust in both companies. this trust issue i have dates back over 25 years. as for reliability of seagate (on topic) in the real world.. haven't had one fail on me so far, but i have had to recover data for people from a few different manufacturers.

fuck forgot to add: yes, seagate was one of those manufacturers :)

I've personally used both over the years and they've both been pretty good in my experience. The Hitachi drives I've used were great and had long lives, so WD using their tech is a big plus I think.

OP IS A FAGGOT

This is a 2.5" notebook drive, people buy the 3.5" Barracuda Pro drives and Ironwolf Pro NAS drives which are reliable

>NAS drives for every day use
Bad idea.

>WD
>choice
Enjoy your backdoor spyware

Are you retarded? NAS drives go into the NAS storage server

imagine being this paranoid about a fucking hard drive

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> I failed statistics

Some segeate drives live very long without failure
But chances are low
You got lucky

3 out of my 4 1.5TB Seagate drivers are already in the trash

I also had to update the HDD firmware because querying SMART attributes during disk writes would lead to data corruption

Fuck you segeate

>3 out of my 4 1.5TB Seagate drivers are already in the trash

Mine just died from catastrophic mechanical failure with over 84,000 head flying hours (~9.5 years). I also have a stack of dead WD drives, and a bunch of still-good-but-very-old seagates, including one that's ~25 years old.

Seems to me, some people just have bad luck and you were unlucky.

6 year old ssds still going strong in my laptop

>NAS drives go into the NAS storage server
What is different about NAS drives?

Tape drives that work with this kind of capacity cost well over $2000, even on ebay.

Seagate? Why no I suggest a Thinkpad P50!

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Backblaze burns through cheap desktop drives in fuckhuge racks with uncompensated rotational vibrations causing mechanical failures.
Either using desktop drives as intended - 1-2 per desktop, or putting server/nas drives with rv sensors in racks will produce totally different results.

>retarded Redditors who saw something about tape drives on Reddit think they'll gain Jow Forums cred by suggesting people use tapes for storage
You dumb retards, do you know how slow tapes are? You can't even watch a video from one of them because the read speeds are too low.

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nas drives have desktop-tier tler, only proper enterprise drives have raid-friendly tler (reminder, surveillance drives have zero tler)
the difference between nas and desktop drives is more rv accelerometers (pointless but not harmful in a desktop) and sometimes price.

HGST drives survive like a cockroach, nothing kills it. This is why I have bought 2 used 2/3TB HGST from ebay for under $30 each and have used it daily for 2 years now.

Bacblaze is valid enough in finding out where the tolerance levels for these HDD are.

> I failed statistics

Some segeate drives dont live very long without failure
But chances are low
You got unlucky

use some actual arguments for once

Any drive can die at any moment.

>Bacblaze is valid enough in finding out where the tolerance levels for these HDD are.
If your use case involves a bunch of cheapest desktop drives crammed in one tiny box (like majority of NAS/homeserver setups) than yes.

No one's going to buy the most expensive shit ever. Everyone wants the cheapest and the most reliable. The only metric we have is Backblaze. Argument about how its irrelevant is dumb.

>tfw have a seagate from almost 10 years ago
>still works perfectly
>bought a seagate external in 2016
>enclosure died less than 6 months after purchase
the drive still worked though
they just dont make em like they used to

I'd rather pay a little bit extra for nas drives.

If it makes you feel better. There's no metric that shows NAS drives are better.

I don’t boot off them, shitlord. My SSD is the best on the big goddamn market.

>he buys
>doesn't download storage
lmao

>You can't even watch a video from one of them because the read speeds are too low.
Linear reading speed? On modern tapes? Really?

>modern
Even LTO-1 was 20MB/s

LTO-5 owner here. Can confirm, you can definitely watch videos directly from a tape. You'll just have to wait until it rewinds to the right place first.

I have 3 external seagate drives since 2012. Maybe I'm just lucky, but they never failed on me.

You're gonna have to get 20+ year old hard drives to avoid that shit.

I use a 2tb seagate drive i bought secondhand in 2016 in my desktop and it never had any problems. Same for the seagate momentus in my beat-up x220t. I guess only drives made before 2010 have a lot of issues.