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[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Seagate. The company that sold me an HDD which broke down two days after the warranty expired.

No thanks.
laughing in Western Digital HDD running for about 10 years now

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 days ago

I had the opposite experience. My Seagates have been running for over a decade now. The one time I went with Western Digital, both drives crapped out in a few years.

[-] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I have 10 year old WDs and 8 year old Seagates still kicking. Depends on the year. Some years one is better than others.

[-] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Funny because I have a box of Seagate consumer drives recovered from systems going to recycling that just won't quit. And my experience with WD drives is the same as your experience with Seagate.

Edit: now that I think about it, my WD experience is from many years ago. But the Seagate drives I have are not new either.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Survivorship bias. Obviously the ones that survived their users long enough to go to recycling would last longer than those that crap out right away and need to be replaced before the end of the life of the whole system.

I mean, obviously the whole thing is biased, if objective stats state that neither is particularly more prone to failure than the other, it's just people who used a different brand once and had it fail. Which happens sometimes.

[-] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Ah I wasn't thinking about that. I got the scrappy spinny bois.

I'm fairly sure me and my friends had a bad batch of Western digitals too.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Had the same experience and opinion for years, they do fine on Backblaze's drive stats but don't know that I'll ever super trust them just 'cus.

That said, the current home server has a mix of drives from different manufacturers including seagate to hopefully mitigate the chances that more than one fails at a time.

[-] Exec@pawb.social 4 points 6 days ago

Did you buy consumer Barracuda?

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

I currently have an 8 year old Seagate external 4TB drive. Should I be concerned?

[-] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Any 8 years old hard drive is a concern. Don't get sucked into thinking Seagate is a bad brand because of anecdotal evidence. He might've bought a Seagate hard drive with manufacturing defect, but actual data don't really show any particular brand with worse reliability, IIRC. What you should do is research whether the particular model of your drive is known to have reliability problems or not. That's a better indicator than the brand.

[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 6 days ago

Western digital so good

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