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Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 days agoSimilar 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.
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
All manufacturers have bad batches. Use diversity and keep backups.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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.