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Their mechanical drives, every mechanical drive company has issues. I have had 4 of the 20tb drives in a truenas setup since last summer with zero issues. Drives in this size should be redundant and under warranty, expect drives to die, they’re consumables. Replace, resilver, move on with life.

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Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Sure. But in my experience Seagate drives are significantly worse. So why spend money on a shit company producing shit drives, if I can spend it on products of another company where I get more use and lifetime out of the product?

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- thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  So let’s just trash this company but not recommend something better?
  
  I think you’re just wanting to be negative today. I’ve used WD/Hitachi/Samsung/crucial drives the same way, everything dies. Resilver the data and move on, don’t expect drives to last more than a decade at the very most.
  
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  - MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You’re listing a lot of brands that are mostly known for their ssds / NVME drives. This convo is about mechanical drives. By their very nature, SSDs are bound to be more reliable than HDDs.
    
    However, when it comes to mechanical drives, western digital is waaaaaay more reliable than Seagate. Always has been. Maybe a lot of people don’t use mechanical drives anymore, so their frame of reference is skewed – but seagate makes trash mechanical drives. They have NEVER been reliable when compared to WD.
    
    Anyway Hitachi made/makes shit mechanical drive and Samsung was never really known for HDDs. Crucial only makes solid state drives.
    
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  - Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I didn’t want to share a recommendation. I saw a post about Seagate and wanted to share my opinion about them.
    
    Do you want a recommendation from me?
    
    Idk, why you’re repeating yourself. If you have the option to choose between two products and you know from experience that one of them is useless earlier than the other, then it would be a waste of money to buy the inferior product as you would have to replace it sooner and therefore loose more money.
    
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    thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    My recommendation is none of them last forever. Get what is available, decent price and warranty, replace when needed. Drives are consumable.
    
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- MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  the people downvoting you are the inexperienced.
  
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