Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 3 days agoIMO, its not a brand issue. Its a seller/batch/brand issue. Hard drives are sensitive to damage, and if you buy multiple drives from the same place, at the same time, and all the same brand and model, you might be setting yourself up for a bad experience if someone accidentally slammed those boxes around earlier in their life.
I highly recommend everyone buy their drives from different sellers, at different times, spread out over various models from different brands. This helps eliminate the bad batch issue.
SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Yeah. In the Backblaze data, you can see that annualized failure rates vary significantly by drive model within the same manufacturer.
But if maintaining drive diversity isn’t your thing, just buy a cold spare and swap it out when a failure inevitably happens (and then replace the spare).
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
The problem with same batch drives is failing together, potentially beyond your ability to recover with replacement drives.