Similar reasons I hate Hitachi and Western Digital hard drives. They always fucking fail.
You misspelled Seagate.
My WD drives have been great, but my Seagates failed multiple times, causing data loss because I wasn’t properly protecting myself.
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callouscomic@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Somehow I figured out Intel was shit early on. Been AMD for like 15-20 years.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
All manufacturers have bad batches. Use diversity and keep backups.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Seagate has more than bad batches. When every single one of their 1tb per platter barracuda drives have high failure rates then that’s a design/long term production issue.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How likely is it that I got 4 to 5 bad batches over the space of as many years?
Raid and offline backups these days, I eventually learned my lesson. One of which is stay away from Seagate.
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Within the realm of possibility. Especially if you treat them harshly (lots of start-stop, and low airflow and high temps). Backblaze collects and publishes data, and the AFR for Seagate is slightly higher than other manufacturers, but not what I’d consider dangerous.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I was in AMD in the 2000s for two reasons: price and competition to Intel. Intel had massive anti-trust loss to AMD around that time, and I wanted AMD to succeed. I stuck with them until Zen was actually competitive and stayed with them ever since because they actually had better products. Intel was the king in both performance and power efficiency until that Zen release, so I really don’t know where that advice would’ve come from.
As for Hitachi and Western Digital, WTF? Hitachi hasn’t been a thing for well over a decade since they sold their HDD business to WD, and WD is generally as reliable or better than its competition. It sounds like you were impacted by a couple failures (probably older drives?) and made a decision based on that. If you look at Backblaze stats, there’s not a huge difference between manufacturers, just a few models that do way worse than the rest.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
15-20 years is silly. Intel was the clear leader for a long time before Ryzen in 2017, and arguably a few years after that too.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yuuup! The last time AMD was better before Ryzen was the Athlon 64 era.