Is this true? I remember them being very reliable in the past.
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UltraBlack@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Wow great. From seagate. The company that produces drives with the by far lowest life expectancy compared to the competiton
elbarto777@lemmy.world 4 days ago
ernest314@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I think people say this because there was one specific 6TB model that does really poorly in BackBlaze reports, combined with a generally poor understanding of statistics (“I bought a Seagate and it failed but I’ve never had a WD fail”).
I will also point out that BackBlaze themselves consistently say that Seagate and WD are pretty much the same (apart from the one model), in those exact same reports
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Repair technicians see by far the most of seagate drives
elbarto777@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Heh. In my case, one WD SSD failed miserably on me.
Thanks for the explanation.
MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I’ve had at least 6 seagate drives over the past 20 years. none of them survived more than 2 or 3 years. Meanwhile, i have two almost 15 year old WDs sitting on my desk still going strong.
crozilla@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And IIRC moved their headquarters to some Caribbean island to avoid paying US corporate taxes.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 days ago
They’re called Seagate, not Landgate.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Pretty sure they are fiscally located in Ireland like a lot of big companies for tax reason and for EU VAT reasons.
crozilla@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You are now correct. They move a lot. storageioblog.com/…/amp/