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Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity) (www.guru3d.com)
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[–] wicked_observer@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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

Used to be WD all the way.

[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

whoa

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 16 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (6 children)

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 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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 2 points 2 hours 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 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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 12 hours ago (1 children)

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 8 hours 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 12 hours 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.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 7 hours ago

Western digital so good

[–] Exec@pawb.social 4 points 13 hours ago

Did you buy consumer Barracuda?

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I currently have an 8 year old Seagate external 4TB drive. Should I be concerned?

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Any 8 years old hard drive is a concern. Don't get sucked into thinking Seagate is a bad brand because of anecdotal evidence. He might've bought a Seagate hard drive with manufacturing defect, but actual data don't really show any particular brand with worse reliability, IIRC. What you should do is research whether the particular model of your drive is known to have reliability problems or not. That's a better indicator than the brand.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Heck yeah.

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

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

HP servers have more fans!

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Great, can't wait to afford one in 2050.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Fleebay? Yup, me too!

[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

$4.99 for the drive plus $399.00 s&h

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

Everybody taking shit about Seagate here. Meanwhile I've never had a hard drive die on me. Eventually the capacity just became too little to keep around and I got bigger ones.

Oldest I'm using right now is a decade old, Seagate. Actually, all the HDDs are Seagate. The SSDs are Samsung. Granted, my OS is on an SSD, as well as my most used things, so the HDDs don't actually get hit all that much.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've had a Samsung SSD die on me, I've had many WD drives die on me (also the last drive I've had die was a WD drive), I've had many Seagate drives die on me.

Buy enough drives, have them for a long enough time, and they will die.

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

How many platters?!

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

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

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