Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 days agoIn my experience, not all Seagates will fail but most HDD’s that fail will be Seagates.
Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 days agoIn my experience, not all Seagates will fail but most HDD’s that fail will be Seagates.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Because Seagate sell the most drives and all drives fail?
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The thing is I’m a data hoarder who buys lots of HDD’s; both new and used. I have only bought a few Seagates. It’s always the Seagates that are fucked. I had a Toshiba and Western Digital fail on me but I have had 5 Seagates fail on me. Could be a coincidence, sure but the brand I have bought the fewest of had the most failures. I recognize this is not scientific in any way. I recently bought a brand new 8TB Seagate Barracuda and its still going strong. I hope if lasts a good while. My oldest drive is a 1TB Hitachi (RIP) from 2008. I can’t wait for 8TB SSD’s to become cheaper.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Nah, as a fellow data hoarder you’re 100% correct. I have a couple of dozen disks, I’ve had failures from both Seagate and WD, but the Seagates have failed much more often. For the past couple of years, I’ve only purchased WD for this reason.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I mostly buy new Toshiba drives now. The WD blue drives are fine. I have a few of them. I have a WD red that is reporting surface errors, it’s still going and the number of errors hasn’t increased so I’m not stressing replacing it. Also, btrfs gives me peace of mind because I can periodiclly check if my filesystem has corrupted data.
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Any hint about the ironwolfs?