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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 5 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?

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[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago

"The two models, the 30TB ... and the 32TB ..., each offer a minimum of 3TB per disk". Well, yes, I would hope something advertised as being 30TB would offer at least 3TB. Am I misreading this sentence somehow?

[-] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago

They probably mean the hard drive has 10 platters, each containing at least 3TB.

[-] john89@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago

Heck yeah.

Always a fan of more storage. Speed isn't everything!

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[-] wicked_observer@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

Haven’t bought Seagate in 15 years. They improve their longevity?

[-] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Vastly. I'm running all seagate ironwolf pros. Best drives Ive ever used.

Used to be WD all the way.

[-] wicked_observer@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

I’m going to have to pass though. They cost too much. I buy refurb with 5 year warranty

[-] kiagam@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago
[-] wicked_observer@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

Nice data but I stick with Toshiba old HGST and WD. For me they seem to last much longer than Seagate

[-] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I have one Seagate drive. It's a 500 GB that came in my 2006 Dell Dimension E510 running XP Media Center. When that died in 2011, I put it in my custom build. It ran until probably 2014, when suddenly I was having issues booting and I got a fresh WD 1 TB. Put it in a box, and kept it for some reason. Fast forward to 2022, I got another Dell E510 with only an 80 GB. Dusted off the old 500 GB and popped it in. Back with XP Media Center. The cycle is complete. That drive is still noisy as fuck.

[-] Steak@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Not worth the risk for me to find out lol. My granddaddy stored his data on WD drives and his daddy before him, and my daddy after him. Now I store my data on WD drives and my son will to one day. Such is life.

[-] kalpol@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

And here I am with HGST drives hitting 50k hours

Edit: no one ever discusses the Backblaze reliability statistics. Its interesting to see how they stack up against the anecdotes.

[-] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

My personal experience has been hit n miss.

Was using one 4TB Seagate for 11 years then bought a newer model to replace it since I thought it was gonna die any day. That new one died within 6 months. The old one still works although I don't use it for for anything important now.

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[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

30 to 32 platters. You can write a file on the edge and watch it as it speeds back to the future!

[-] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago
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