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Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives (nerds.xyz)
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[–] 38 points 8 months ago (14 children)

Have Seagate sorted their shit out? I have never had any other manufactures drives fail so often in the last 25 or so years. I have them a fresh chance about 10 years ago in a PS4 and guess what? It failed.

This just sounds like 44Tb of fucking about restoring data to me.

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  • [–] 49 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    In Germany there is a saying that goes like

    Seagate, oder Seagate nicht

    where "Seagate" sounds like "sie geht" ("she works"; the word "hard drive disk" is femininum in German).

    So it translates to "She works, or she does not work." or "Sometimes they work, sometimes they do not work"

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Stop buying consumer tier Barracudas. Their enterprise stuff is actually good.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    If they're willing to sell unreliable trash to consumers, why should we trust them at all?

    Having had several of their drives fail and then received multiple, non-functional drives for a warranty replacement, I will not trust them again.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    The datasheets are public. WD and Toshiba has their own consumer hard drives. Check the Mean Time Between Failures, Read Errors per Bits Read, and Power On Hours per Year rows for them. The consumer ones usually have at most half of the values compared to the enterprise counterparts.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    100%. Meanwhile that Samsung 1Tb in my server has a power on hours count of 116892 and is still happily chugging along (yes it’s got a cold spare ready to go ands nothing important on it lol).

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    It’s just my opinion but the “brand war” on HDDs is a little overblown. I too recall periods where Seagate got bad PR for quality issues, but I’m not concerned that 10 years later any HDD I buy from them is going to croak as soon as it’s half full. There’s no way they would still be in business if that image is true. I think many times if there is a difference in quality between brands it’s the difference between 99.999% and 99.998% - gasp! double the failure rate! - and then it evens out again.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    44TB HAMR and it's gonna be thousands of dollars and sold out for achival use anyway.

    The big wave of failures was related to a tsunami years ago. Their enterprise stuff fails at about the same rate as WD last i check. Phoronix or someone cloud data host release numbers annually

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