Are seagate drives legitimately low quality and prone to failure?

>>57002256
Based Dan

I avoid them since two (2) bad warranty experiences.

>>57002256
Pretty sure I see nip.

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>>57002302
Well I got these 3 used for roughly a hundred aud 2 years ago. They would have been like 75 aud new iirc back then.

Don't think used drives come with warranty

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Yes. Check the backblaze website, they have a ton of stats. Pic related.

>>57002256
>raid 0
well you obviously don't care about losing all the data on them, so what does it matter how reliable they are?

>>57002320
She has tape over it. She isn't some kind of whore.

>>57002335
That's not even relevant.

>>57002346
Because it would be inconvenient.

>>57002320
Fuck off prude,

>>57002350
Bait

>>57002256
I have several 1TB Seagate drives that have all seen 10TB+ of writes over 3-4 years. No clicks, no odd sounds. I don't even have any reallocated sectors. Same on my 2TB Seagate I have sitting in my server. I don't trust 3 or 5TB drives from any manufacturer. I only buy 2,4,6TB drives. Seems all odd number drives have higher failure rates than their even numbered counterparts.

It's largely a statistics game, but WD drives have always lasted significantly longer for me than Seagate drives. I think there was some data-center study at Google or whatever that had Seagate drives bombing before WD drives. Can't be bothered looking for it. It's the way the Seagate drives fail as well: A flood of SMART errors out of nowhere and very little time to clone vs. the more graceful failures I typically experience with WD drives.

>>57002434
>op asking after 1tb seagates
>you post a pic with no information about 1tb seagates
Bait.

>>57002256
Seagate is actually pretty good

>>57004307
Dude this thread was dead for two hours you goddamn necromancer

>>57004335
Am I on the tomshardware forums again?

>>57002335
>seagate 6tb
>1882 drives
>0 failures

>WD 6tb
>458 drives
>5 failures

Fuck, and I was just about to buy a couple 6tb WD Reds.

>>57004335
Oh you fucking faggot, oh you fucking raging homosexual, oh you fucking maggot, oh fuck you,.

>>57002256
>Are seagate drives legitimately low quality and prone to failure?
Nah it's just WD shills, idiots who fell for the shilling and keep repeating the same bullshit speech over and over and memers who like to post the blackblaze failed statistics.
Don't be a goy, WDs and Seagates are literally made in the same factory in Thailand.

I had a 1tb seagate drive that failed after a year, this was many years ago though.

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>>57002256
I've had over 20 drives from both WD and Seagate over a span of 10 years, and ALL my WD drives have died. Seagate, well, not all of them are still alive, but I have more failures with drives that are >2GB than those lower. My 500GB Seagate drive is still chugging along after all these years. I dont know what magic Seagate has in their drives, but it seems WD doesnt give me any mojo.

But my one HGST drive from 5 years ago is still the champ. Perfect SMART and works fine. The thing with HGST is you either get a DOA or a champ.

Yes, they're shit; yes, do regular backups.

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>>57004754
>not buying samsung drives 5 years ago

God I wish samsung never sold out to Seagate. Fucking seagate could be out of business today if samsung kept going as strong as they were.

>>57004963
>tfw a few shops close to me that still sell old samsung externals

I maintain data for a medium-sized scientific collaboration, and we used to have some Seagate drives. I've had lots of failures, somewhere around 10% at least. But they are in higher use than a personal computer.

>>57002256
Its largely a wash, outside of certain skews.

Never trust a 1.5tb drive, no one made a reliable one, i had 3 failures on mine, though once they worked, they are going on 5-6 years of use.

never trust a drive to raid zero without a backup, each drive multiplies the chance of total failure, as in if it was 1% now its 2% a third drive is 4% a forth is 8% so on so forth for risk.

as for seagate in particular, if you do a drive burn in, as in 3 months of use before you make it a main drive, you got no issue, if the drive hasn't failed, it's not going to catastrophically fail any time soon.

all hdds have at least 3 points of failure
1) the drive itself was fucked from the get go
2) damaged in shipping/stocking
3) damaged by user

you have people who will bang the drives around or drop them while they are boxed, you have people who aren't paid enough to care if the drives are knocked around, and you have users who will use drives at odd angles which stresses the drive more then it should be.

so long as you don't do the above, you likely have nothing to worry about for the warranty period of the drive at the very least.

Hell, I have a 120gb maxtor drive, thing still works after i want to say 10 years of on and off service with 6 years of it being a main drive.

>>57004963
I have a 1000GB Samsung laptop drive.

Has the seagate website written on it though

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>>57002256
>you will never be a rich alpha from birth

>>57005770
You can buy two prostitutes as well, anon

>>57005793
not classy ones

>>57002256
Based Dan

>>57005770
He's a trust fund cuck, no one to envy.

>>57002256
I like Dan.

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>>57002256
Seagate currently has a lower failure rate than Western Digital. Toshiba is slightly lower than Seagate. HGST has by far the lowest failure rate.

The high fail rates were caused by the Thailand floods a few years ago.

>>57002256
one day i will be upper middle class and will be able to buy a mail order bride from russia

but today is not that day

Where the hell do people go to buy HGST drives, because all I find are drives that are refurbished and only come with a 1 year warranty.

>>57007172
This. Or stupid expensive ones.

>>57002320
suck a dick

>>57007453
Kek

Seagate fails earlier than most others
I'd avoid it
Toshiba HDD are piss cheap aswell and more reliable i believe