+1 for seagate 🫡
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tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 1 month ago
After I had two WD drives fail in my old NAS, I switched to all Seagate on my next build. Currently running 9x 20TB Exos X20, though for only about a year now.
I think the most important thing is that you pick a drive that is meant for NAS/server use (so rated for running 24/7). And having manufacturere warrenty is also nice. My Seagate drives have 60 months (which is considerably more then the 36 months that my WD drives had).
c0smokram3r@midwest.social 1 month ago
ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
m currently failing drive is a WD as well… 🥴
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Switching wholesale from a brand or model to another could be counterproductive. There are myriad of reasons why drives can fail that aren’t related to the brand and the model. What if you unknowingly switch to a less reliable model because of such a reason? You’d end up worse off. For example according to Backblaze’s data, Seagate is generally worse than WD.
A better way to do this is to mix brands and models so that there’s less probability to fail at the same time. I have both WD and Seagate in a single storage pool, even if the Seagate model is objectively less reliable according to Backblaze.