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

• ernest314@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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  • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

    Thanks for the explanation.

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  • MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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