Every deagate drive ive ever bought has died within 2 years. Terrible qualityThe last 2 Seagate drives I bought are dead. Stick with Western Digital or Toshiba.
Every deagate drive ive ever bought has died within 2 years. Terrible qualityThe last 2 Seagate drives I bought are dead. Stick with Western Digital or Toshiba.
Well there's your problem. Laptop HDDs are slow, and constantly sleep to save power.Eh, SSDs in my last couple of laptops has shown me that I valuable speed over storage capacity. Cool for those that want this.
Seagate really killed their reputation with one or two drive lines that either had firmware issues or reliability problems, and buying Maxtor and rebranding them as lower-end Seagate drives was a big mistake in my opinion. Maxtor is a brand that I avoided at all costs no matter what model it was.Never ever buy a Seagate drive
And yet HGST drives are at the top of most reliability charts these days.Or a Hitachi Death Star
I think I could probably only not fill up a petabyte."OMG I'll never fill that up"
My first pc had a 512mb hdd.Damn, and I still remember when my first PC had an 8 gig HDD.
I bought a PC in 1998 or 1999 with a 1.2GB drive. I thought I would be set for years!I remember buying a 1 GB drive for $1000 at the CompUSA Windows 95 midnight release.
Get off my lawn!
Never ever buy a Seagate drive
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Or a Hitachi Death Star
The last 2 Seagate drives I bought are dead. Stick with Western Digital or Toshiba.
While I generally agree that Seagate drives are pretty bad lately, HGST's (which is a part of WD now btw) driver are actually on top of both performance and reliability charts. Seagate drives are the cheapest ones though so you may certainly get one if you're prepared for the possible issues and know how to backup your data regularly - and it's a good idea to be prepared on any modern HDD really so Seagate isn't that much different from the rest of them.
Never ever buy a Seagate drive
Finally, men can finally fit all their porn folders into one harddrive
"OMG I'll never fill that up"
This Seagate-is-shit-shit is never going to die, is it?
This is interesting as I have a WD 500GB that is about 10 years old now and it still works fine... Yeah, I have the important stuff backed upThe short answer is: It generally tends to depend on the drive.
Overall though, it seems like they've been doing better than Western Digital:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-benchmark-stats-2016/
I never had a Seagate drive fail on me once, and I've been buying them for almost 10 years.Does the reliability of Seagate drives still suck, or have they gotten better?
Never ever buy a Seagate drive
Does the reliability of Seagate drives still suck, or have they gotten better?
Seagate drives have been fine for awhile now.
I still think the Toshiba P300/X300 series are the best bang for the buck right now.
Nope.This Seagate-is-shit-shit is never going to die, is it?
This is interesting as I have a WD 500GB that is about 10 years old now and it still works fine... Yeah, I have the important stuff backed up
CERN uses Seagate HDDs - currently about 100 petabytes worth using the Sun ZFS file system - so I think using them at home will be ok.
The last 2 Seagate drives I bought are dead. Stick with Western Digital or Toshiba.
Damn, and I still remember when my first PC had an 8 gig HDD.
It was really only one specific size/model (a few varieties of the 4TB ST4000D) that ever sucked -- so no, you don't need to worry. As you can see, though, releasing a shit product has impact on your reputation even years later, and so a lot of people are superstitious about them (perhaps ignoring that every other HDD manufacturer has also had notorious high-failure models). Using the Backblaze drive stats from Q2 2017 you can see that only the ST4000D models have high failure rates.
I do. How can someone not have a RAID for important data?No one at home has multiple arrays of hard disks on RAIDs.