Why do they fail so much?
Why do they fail so much?
Charles Wilson
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Thomas Jones
because they don't
Jordan Jones
That's self-contradictory
Aiden Cook
Never had a seagate drive in my life, both internal and external. Hitachi on the other hand...
Isaac Cruz
*never had a seagate drive fail in my life
Jace Bennett
well, I'm not in the wrong. so OP is
toshiba is utter shit, but seagate is fine
if you need militar grade storage get a fucking wd black ffs
Cooper Reed
Seagate is actually as reliable as WD and HGST on their good drive series.
They regularly fuck up big time and get a series with 30%+ failure rate within a year though and these series bomb their reputation.
It's the reason why you get people like and the polar opposite that had the joy of owning a 7200.11 or DM005 with 4TB.
Evan Gray
How do you know whether a series is a good one?
Hitachi had a legendarily faulty series once.
Levi Hughes
>How do you know whether a series is a good one?
You don't, at least if you buy current gen.
It's a gamble, or at least it used to be. Maybe they stepped up their QC game, idk.
Angel Davis
Because you touch yourself at night.
James Perry
works on my machine
Justin Gray
>had and still have a bunch of hard drives over the years (20+ timespan)
>most (probably around 15) were Seagate and none failed, worst case were some reallocated sectors
>for every other brand (Quantum, Maxtor, WD), of which there were very few in total, at least one of each shat itself
Isaiah Butler
I had an external drive that had some nonmechanical failure in less than one year but other than that they have been reliable.
Daniel Miller
is there a specific timespan when seagate HDDs were bad? My main HDD is a 1TB seagate barracuda from 2012 and it's never had any issues.
Jonathan Cox
Specific models have ridiculous rates but others are normal, a 3TB model from 2011 had a 30% failure rate.
James Richardson
Weren't the high failure rates only really with those extra-large HDDs though? I remember when I was buying PC parts back in 2012 that the main recommendation was that HDDs greater than 1TB were sketchy as fuck and prone to failure.
Juan Powell
tight tolerances have a cost and high margins are sweet anodyne to the knowledge that your products are mediocre in that regard
Robert Morris
what do you mean they fail so much. i have a external hard drive made from segate its awesome it hasn;t failed me yet
Connor Butler
Why do they never fail?
Adam Anderson
The only seagate drive I've had that has failed was my fault, because I let my laptop fall working, apart of this, I have 30 TB of data in 8 seagate drives, not even 1 sector damaged.
Mason Ward
Kevin Miller
I don't know, they never failed on me.
Gabriel Martinez
>backblaze
>any credibility at all
Grayson Walker
Any actual direct links to the supposed empirical data?
Ryan Reyes
>still pretending
Joseph Jackson
Imagine owning one of the 3TB drives.
I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
Colton Phillips
Had one since 2012, never failed on me. Maybe I'm just lucky though.
Owen Collins
what's wrong with backblaze?
Luis Murphy
Brandon Brown
It doesn't confirm WD and Toshiba shills world view
Zachary Jackson
Oh look the WD defense force has arrived
Elijah Moore
both articles "defend" Seagate against Backblaze's reported "failures", though
Ian Morgan
My ST3000DM001 just started reallocating sectors, I noticed it started having hiccups and when I checked it was already over 2k events. It has almost 15k hours on it so I guess it wasn't super terrible but I have drives with 20 and even 30k hours on them and they still work well. I guess this specific line was unlucky for some reason.
Sebastian Evans
>Hitachi on the other hand...
Hitachi got a lot better once Western Digital bought out their hard drive line
Would still recommend SSDs these days for maximum reliability
Sebastian Stewart
I'm still waiting for this thing to die
Easton Gomez
>using the pleb version instead of the most superior theme
Asher Sanders
How many times you had sex?
Kevin Gray
0 times and I hope it stays that way my entire life
Logan Hill
>my entire life
It won't be a long life, that's for sure.
Christopher Campbell
Current high end seagate failure rates are the same as WD.
Its there lower end older drives specifically there 3tbs that you have to worry about. A lot of those got fucked because they where produced during the taiwan flooding.
Blake Jackson
Jason Lewis
Because it's a based Japanese manufacturer. I have bought one last year and I run it 24/7. S.M.A.R.T. is impeccable so far. Though, the only way to judge a hard drive series and brand is through big population analysis. I read BackBlaze's reports every year.
Leo Clark
ive been using this seagate disk since i built my pc in 2013 and its held up.
amazon.com
Luke Rodriguez
>Western Digital
>48115 hours
>perfect disk health
Jonathan Thompson
lol
Levi Clark
Toshiba bought OCZ.
Gabriel Perry
Which brand/model?
Alexander Hernandez
That sole WD is the old consumer Red
Liam Phillips
Their usage and statistics aren't comparable to a typical consumer workload but they're infinitely better than reviews posted online where one guy says his drive failed.
Kevin Scott
It's on Backblaze's site.
backblaze.com
Landon Clark
except they're infinitely worse because backblaze tortures and abuses their drives beyond any realistic use case
Zachary Evans
slow but steady