Comment on Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives

brap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In Germany there is a saying that goes like

  Seagate, oder Seagate nicht

  where “Seagate” sounds like “sie geht” (“she works”; the word “hard drive disk” is femininum in German).

  So it translates to “She works, or she does not work.” or “Sometimes they work, sometimes they do not work”

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  • brap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s brilliant, I love it.

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• Exec@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Stop buying consumer tier Barracudas. Their enterprise stuff is actually good.

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  • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If they’re willing to sell unreliable trash to consumers, why should we trust them at all?

    Having had several of their drives fail and then received multiple, non-functional drives for a warranty replacement, I will not trust them again.

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    • Exec@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The datasheets are public. WD and Toshiba has their own consumer hard drives. Check the Mean Time Between Failures, Read Errors per Bits Read, and Power On Hours per Year rows for them. The consumer ones usually have at most half of the values compared to the enterprise counterparts.

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      • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I have had many, many drives over the years. Seagate took a huge dive in both quality and support over a decade ago. I searched my email to find My Last Seagate Interaction

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      • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Interesting that you downvote me for having a different experience than you. Are you a paid fan boy or do you do it for free?

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    • brap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      100%. Meanwhile that Samsung 1Tb in my server has a power on hours count of 116892 and is still happily chugging along (yes it’s got a cold spare ready to go ands nothing important on it lol).

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  • brap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Good advice, but I’ve been burned so many times I’m just going elsewhere.

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• modus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve been running their IronWolf Pros for several years now. No issues.

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s just my opinion but the “brand war” on HDDs is a little overblown in my opinion. I too recall one or two periods where Seagate got bad pr for quality issues, but I’m not concerned that 10 years later any HDD I buy from them is going to croak as soon as it’s half full. There’s no way they would still be in business if that image is true. I think many times if there is a different in quality between brands it’s the difference between 99.999% and 99.998% - gasp! double the failure rate! - and then it evens out again.

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• redsand@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  44TB HAMR and it’s gonna be thousands of dollars and sold out for achival use anyway.

  The big wave of failures was related to a tsunami years ago. Their enterprise stuff fails at about the same rate as WD last i check. Phoronix or someone cloud data host release numbers annually

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