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.).
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Randelung@lemmy.world 6 months agoTo 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.
ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 6 months ago
vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 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.