>mfw my 4 year old 1TB Seagate HDD crashed.
>just making this cyclical sound over and over again
>didn't show up under "my computer"
I thought the whole "Seagate has a high failure rate" was just a meme, but it actually is real
Should I just buy WD HDD's from now on?
>he thinks meme magic is a meme
you deserve shit
SEAGATE FAGS BTFO SEAGATE IS OVER BANKRUPT
>>52019317
I still have my 2TB WD though :)
I just partitioned it to 750GB which is what I'll put all my games on. It sucks that I have to redownload all my Steam shit tho.
I confirm that many ST disk have poor reliabilty and same of them are pure crap;
the only exception it's the 4tb 5900rpm that is very reliable and cheap at the same time for the joy of the datacenter engineers.
>>52019424
source on that?
WD shills in full damage control today.
>>52019527
Backblaze statistics, gugl for it.
>>52019555
>tfw HGST master race
>>52019555
desu senpai it was probably seagate's massive fail 4tb disks that ruined their game
>>52019908
you mean the 3tb version? that's what the graph say;
Anyway the same HGST it's a enterprise version while ST it's consumer and the price difference is around 2-2.5 times.
>>52019972
All HGST HDD's across the board are lower failure rates.
>>52019269
Hurr my single bad case must mean the brand is shit
No. Just luck of the draw unfortunately OP. I have 3 1tb seagates of varying ages (oldest being 8 years old) hooked with a WD blue 1tb in raid 10. Heavy writes all the time. No errors or bad sectors or weird noises.
Also have an older 2tb seagate for primary storage. Anything above 2tb though I'll buy Toshiba or HGST. Bought a 4tb Toshiba recently for $120. Great reviews from all major reviewers and no problems thus far as a dedicated cold backup external drive.
>>52019269
Im thinking of getting this one...
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2tb-hgst-0f14690-ultrastar-7k4000-512n-24x7-use-35-7200rpm-sata-64mb-cache
Yeah, i only use hgst at work and for now non had me change idea;
In my work i found that hgst drives fail in the first 48 hours of work or never fail (still have firmware issues anyway).
Unfortunately HGST arent' cheap, especially because i order the enterprise version.
Instead i'm finding the first statistic for seagate 6tb models and they seem to be reliable; can't find nothing about the 8tb "archive" version.
Anyway, hgst a work, something cheap at home; it's why i'm looking into latest ST.
which model of hgst to get? i mean with wd it's easy they have black, red, greens etc. but what with hgst?
>>52020754
That one in the link is decent hgst drive
>>52019269
Four years isn't terrible for an HDD, especially if it was used constantly.
>>52019424
Yeah, my barracuda is crapping out, it's going to die soon. About 4 years old.
I wish HDDs didnt cost what they do, it's hard to justify buying one over another SSD at this point
Samsung Spinpoints were the GOAT.
>>52020339
Deskstar is the average consumer HDD
Deskstar NAS is the NAS-focused HDD with some features from the Ultrastar
Ultrastar is the enterprise HDD for data centers and servers
>>52019555
Get fucked shill
> one hdd crashes
> Seagate a shit!!!
You are retarded.
Currently got a WD blue, whats an equivalent HGST (performance) in 2/4 tb?
It's 4 years old op, that's plenty of use. Just ensure you've the important shit backed up in triple and I don't mean porn and games.
>>52021761
>>52021889
Your spambot appears to be broken
>>52019269
Hitachi is the best
what the fuck is going on in this thread
Anecdotal evidence: I had a Seagate HDD for under a year and it died on me. The replacement (refurbished) drive I got back under warranty died within 4 months. I now don't use the third replacement (again, refurbished) for main data storage because I can't trust Seagate as a company anymore. Tyvm for my data loss.
>>52019269
every seagate driver i have ever had has failed
>>52022866
shillbot crashed, it's spitting out the whole thing again and again.
>>52019269
Dude, I had two 2TB WD Reds die on me this year. Never touching WD again.
>>52022866
We're just messing around dude, chill out.
>this thread
>>52023616
>>this thread
What about it?
>>52019269
its a meme
>>52021031
we're at the crossing point where SSD's are about to take over for the long haul.
just bought a SSD for 22 cents/GB and it's only gonna get cheaper from there.
find a 4TB drive on sale and make it your last spinning drive. that's my plan. i've got two 1TB drives and 1 two TB drive that i'll empty out onto the 4TB and use those three drives as usable working space.
my three SSD's will be the workhorses.
>>52023665
>>52023672
I'm buying 6 6TB WD Red Pros as the last HDD array for my NAS.
I can't wait for multi-TB SSDs to get cheaper. They'll last longer, use much less power, have zero vibration, and be so much faster
>>52023698
i know, i know. every time the price point gets right i buy another. when 120 hit the right price, i got it. same for 240. now 480. was gonna go 960/TB but i got a good deal (i'm pretty sure they'll just jump on the TB bandwagon instead of continuing with actual GB).
once 2TB SSD's get to about 10 cents/gig i'll pick one up.
>>52023750
Why?
>>52023683
>>52023665
>186GB
>698GB
Pre Thai Flo drives
>>52023750
I got two of the WD Red Pro 6TB drives for ~$130 each, which isn't bad. I'm just waiting for more discounts to go along with the sale. They're collecting dust in their static bags until I can get the rest for my future NAS build.
>>52023767
My render library would fill that drive in weeks, that's why. Also yiffy gay furry porn. All 64TB of it.
Don't forget true crypt for your pizza.
>>52023838
>>52023858
christmas break pls go
>>52023886
Nah
I had a relatively old Seagate HD "crash" on me first week of November. Try removing the PCB on the bottom and cleaning corrosion and tarnish off. Got mine back up, running, and cloned to a new HD.
>>52019269
lol the only drive I've had fail is a WD green. And I own a few Seagate, including the dreaded .11 drive. Its pot fucking luck OP.
>tfw I've been using the same 320GB HDD since 2008
>it has yet to give me a single issue
I do occasionally format it around every two years hence the reason I don't use much space. (Also I don't keep 100 gigs worth of gay, furry porn. I dont understand the reasoning behind people who do that.)
But I do have this nagging feeling that it may have been replaced in its entirety in the past, hence why it has never given me a single issue. By who or for what? I dont know.
I'm still scared of the SSD myth that multiple read write will shorten the life span significantly. I download alot of small shit and delete + move them around so much that I am scared. And now there are signs my HDD might fail so I am looking for a new one but can't decide if I would like to stay with HDD or SSD. Coincidentally boxing week sales are coming up too
>>52019555
>backblaze
backblaze has business practices that make their comparisons utter shit and useless
>>52023993
I've reinstalled Windows on my 3 year old Samsung SSD like 10 times and my SSD health still reads as "100%."
I still have until 2025 until it crashes
>>52023993
google that shit, a guy wrote petabytes of data on drives before any failures.
you're not going to kill that SSD with writes. it'll die of natural causes first or just keep on kickin' like some 15 year old HDD's i use daily.
WD >>>>>>>>> everything
>>52024117
xD You tell em" haha!
>>52024139
Thanks u too :)
>>52023665
7 years ago I had like 3 seagate harddrives they only lasted a year, I had a western digital raptor harddrive too, and guess what it still fucking runs.
>>52019269
>4 year old
>high failure rate
My bro is getting me a 2 TB WD Black hard drive for Christmas but I'm transitioning over to SSD. What kind of shit could I still do with it?
Not-even going to read threw the thread, here's personal experience.
I have WD drives that are 10 years old, Only had a WD Green drive fail but after it took a massive shock(Would kill most mechanical drives) currently have 6
I've had 5 sea-gate drives, all died.
1 given, 2 purchased;died, then used company replacement both died again.
>>52025639
Store data
>>52025639
Are you retarded or something? What do you expect to do with a storage device?
>>52019269
> My drive failed
> All similar drives are bad
Christ /g/ you must be clinically retarded.
>be new to computers
>buy prebuilt
>still use same hdd
>survived 7 years
>many lan partys
>much moving around
>it's a seagate
>>52025851
I used my old hard drive as a coaster.
>>52019269
>Should I just buy WD HDD's from now on?
Buy a WD black, just before the 5 year warranty is up replace them with a newer larger version for the same price.
>>52019269
It is real m8
procurement guy in my office avoids seagate hardrives
>>52019269
seagate's are fine. 4 years is fine too. i have been in the IT industry for 15 years. Average mechanical drive life is 3-5 years. They're cheap as fuck, why are you complaining? It's practically a 'consumable' because it moves...therefore it's guaranteed to fail eventually. If you get 3 years out of it, you've gotten your value for it. Only dumbasses don't have backups and only poorfags can't replace a fucking harddrive.
>>52025880
>new to /g/
>know what lan parties are
nigger i'm older than you and lan parties weren't even cool then, you can't fool me.
/g/tards should fucking kill themselves. Seagate are fine! I have one for 7 years and guess what?! Best paperweight I ever bought!
