• brap@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 days ago

      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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      It’s just my opinion but the “brand war” on HDDs is a little overblown in my opinion. I too recall one or two 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 different 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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      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