To support this: Backblaze consistently reports much higher failure rates for Seagate drives than all others. I personally don’t trust them. All my failed drives are Seagate, but that’s anecdotal. www.backblaze.com/…/hard-drive-test-data backblaze.com/…/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2022/ the by manufacturer graph.
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ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 10 months ago
It’s just the cheapest type of drive there is. The use case is in large scale RAIDs where one disk failing isn’t a big issue. They tend to have decent warranty but under heavy load they’re not expected to last multiple years. Personally I use drives like this but I make sure to have them in a RAID and with backup, anything else would be foolish. Do also note that expensive NAS drives aren’t guaranteed to last either so a RAID is always recommended.
Randelung@lemmy.world 10 months ago
vithigar@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
That tracks with my experience as well. Literally every single Seagate drive I’ve owned has died, while I have decade old WDs that are still trucking along with zero errors. I decided a white back that I was never touching Seagate again.
ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 10 months ago
For sure higher but still not high, we’re talking single digit percentage failed drives per year with a massive sample size. TCO (total cost of ownership) might still come out ahead for Seagate being that they are many times quite a bit cheaper. Still drives failures are a part of the bargain when you’re running your own NAS so plan for it no matter what drive you end up buying. Which means have cash on hand to buy a new one so you can get up to full integrity as fast as possible. (Best is of course to always have a spare on hand but that isn’t feasible for a lot of us.).
rosa666parks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Ok cool, I plan on using them in RAID Z1
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Make that RAID Z2 my friend. One disk of redundancy is simply not enough. If a disk fails while resilvering, which can and does happen, then your entire array is lost.
SexyVetra@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hard agree. Regret only using Z1 for my own NAS. Nothings gone wrong yet 🤞but we’ve had to replace all the drives once so far which has led to some buttock clenching.
When I upgrade, I will not be making the same mistake. (Instead I’ll find shiny new mistakes to make)
Archer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This should be the community slogan