Since the 90s, at least 4 times out of 5, when a hard drive I've owned has failed, it has been a seagate. I've sworn off buying their products a few years ago. I've had more WD drives in that time and their failure rate is so much lower. I gave Seagate one last chance when they released their Iron Wolf drives a few years back, because they went back to their 5 year warranty, and wouldn't you know it, I ordered two and one failed after about 3 months. Of course, I was using them in an external enclosure which ran them as a stripe/JBOD, so, of course, when one 6TB drive failed, all data was lost. Fucking thanks again, Seagate.
NEVER buy a seagate drive. Stick with WD or HGST if you're purchasing mechanical drives. As for SSDs, I have no strong opinions.
Funny you say that cause according to backblaze WD are the worst then Seagate.
I've got 12x10Tb Seagate Irownwolf running 247 for 3 years, 1 just got bad sectors last month.
You buying the cheapest always?
I think the WD Greens were often being used in improper scenarios, like trying to use them in a NAS/RAID array, but also being used as an OS drive. Either is a terrible idea.
I like to see the reports issued by data centers who track their failures across thousands of drives. This really tells you what you need to know - and that is, Seagate makes some fucking lemons:
2020 - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/image1.jpg
2019 - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/hard_drive_failure_rates_q2_2019.jpg
2018 - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/blog-Q3-2018-quarterly-chart.png
2017 - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/blog-chart-q4-2017-only.jpeg
2016 - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/blog-q2-failure-rates.jpg
I haven't purchased many Seagate drives since the IDE days because other vendors offer better prices, but I've had every brand fail. In particular, the IBM Deathstars and the WD Greens were particularly problematic.
The local Micro Center usually has the low-speed Toshiba 1TB drives for about $35, so I've been buying those for backup storage. They seem to work fine, and I've taken several used ones from people as well. My oldest drives are two 2013 WD Reds in a NAS that are going strong and not showing any errors. They're due for replacement this year.
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