Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!

UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this true? I remember them being very reliable in the past.

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  • ernest314@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Repair technicians see by far the most of seagate drives

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    • MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Heh. In my case, one WD SSD failed miserably on me.

      Thanks for the explanation.

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• crozilla@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And IIRC moved their headquarters to some Caribbean island to avoid paying US corporate taxes.

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  • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pretty sure they are fiscally located in Ireland like a lot of big companies for tax reason and for EU VAT reasons.

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    • crozilla@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You are now correct. They move a lot. storageioblog.com/…/amp/

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re called Seagate, not Landgate.

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