>tfw fell for the Seagate meme and lost almost 2GB of

>>59880280
lesson learned, I learned mine 5 years ago

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>only 2 GB of data over 1.5 years

>>59880280
>2GB

>>59880280
>2GB

>>59880280
>2gb

Did you mean 200gb?

>>59880280

Lost 10 GB of personal pics and videos 7 years ago (and almost 1 TB of shit that I downloaded time after), western digital is my only choice since then.

>>59880370
>200GB
What are you talking about? They won't have drives that big for years. I think he meant 200MB

>>59880280
Cloud doesn't have this problem

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>>59880345
>>59880351
>>59880363
>>59880370
Holy shit sorry guys I meant 2TB fuck I am so distraught.

>>59880380
You sure he didn't mean 2YB?

>tfw fell for the Seagate meme
>tfw 16TB of data has never been lost and it's been five years since I bought 4 4TB drives.

sucks to suck i guess

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>>59880280
>2017
>Still not backing up data
>Still

>>59880280
>>tfw fell for the Seagate meme and lost almost 2GB of data after 1.5 years
Ah. On the same boat, friend. 1500 bad sectors after 720 days of on time. 4700 three days after. That's roughly 10gb IIRC. Good thing I had backups.

my seagate 1.5TB started making clicking noises and disappearing after ~2 years

toshibia 5TB has been great though

>>59880280
ahahahaha faggot

>>59880384
You are right . They make several copies of your stuff

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>>59880396
>Only 2TB

>2GB of data
>one egg in one basket
>stupid fucking people will be the death of us all

I never had any Seagate drive dying on me. I don't know if I'm just lucky or you faggots are doing something wrong.

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>>59880420
>2017
>backing up useless data

>>59880556
Stupid salad poster.

>>59880420
it's all on the cloud.

>>59880764
if it was useless then why do you care about losing it?

I use a Toshiba external hard drive to back up my stuff.
How long will it last in comparison to Seagate stuff?

i have seriously kept a hard drive in my sock drawer for 3 years and it was fine when i used it again

i've fresh installed over 100 operating systems on a hard drive from 2007 that still works

what the fuck do you faggots do that kill your hard drives

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>>59881027
Allow me to show you...

>>59880280
Fucking rotational velocidensity, man
We warned you that some bits and bytes might fall off, but you did not listen

>>59880280
>fell for the seagate meme in 2014
>haven't lost anything I didn't delete myself

Seagate doesn't have an exceptionally high failure rate, contrary to that bullshit backblaze """study""" that used the cheapest external, consumer drives in enterprise conditions. They had one really bad model a few years ago with a high failure rate, but that issue has been solved. One bad drive you had doesn't confirm your bias. I've had a WD drive fail after a few weeks, is WD bad now? I saw one study about the return rate of consumer hard drives to a certain retailer in France, and Seagate has the lowest rate (by a small margin).

>>59880396
>Not having redundant backups

You asked for this.

>>59881113
my seagate drive failed but my WD green is still strong

If you write that much data its time to go SSD
don't blame the HDD company

you know that to do.

>>59881186
>seagate failed
Give me the model number or I call bullshit

some models are more faulty than others.
also if its just two 2TB then your better off getting a 2.5" hard drive or a 2TB with 128MB buffer if your going HDD in 2017.

>>59880280

Here's my entire history with drives. All of my failures have been Seagate and only Seagate. And most of my Seagates have failed. Every other brand has been fine. Obviously, I will never buy another Seagate as long as I live.

Cond  Purch.   TB    Model
               
GOOD  2006-??  0.3   Maxtor 6L300R0
GOOD  2006-??  0.3   Seagate ST3300631A
FAIL  2009-06  1.5   Seagate ST31500341AS
FAIL  2009-06  1.5   Seagate ST31500341AS
FAIL  2009-06  1.5   Seagate ST31500341AS
GOOD  2006-??  0.3   Maxtor 6L300S0
GOOD  2006-??  0.5   Maxtor 7H500F0
GOOD  2006-??  0.5   Maxtor 7H500F0
FAIL  2009-07  1.5   Seagate ST31500341AS
GOOD  2009-11  2.0   Seagate ST32000542AS
GOOD  2009-12  2.0   Hitachi HDS72202
GOOD  2010-01  2.0   Seagate ST32000542AS
GOOD  2010-04  2.0   Hitachi HDS72202
GOOD  2010-12  2.0   WD WD20EARS-00M
GOOD  2011-01  2.0   WD WD20EARS-00M
GOOD  2011-08  3.0   Hitachi HDS5C303
GOOD  2011-09  1.0   WD WDBACX001088K-01
GOOD  2012-05  0.06  Intel SSDSC2CW06
GOOD  2012-09  0.24  Intel SSDSC2CW24
FAIL  2012-09  3.0   Seagate ST3000DM001-9YN1
GOOD  2013-06  0.06  Mushkin MKNSSDCR60GB-7
GOOD  2014-10  6.0   WDC WD60EZRX-00M
GOOD  2016-07  0.5   Samsung SSD 850
GOOD  2016-07  8.0   WDC WD80EFZX-68U
GOOD  2016-08  0.5   Samsung SSD 850
GOOD  2016-10  8.0   WDC WD80EFZX-68U

>>59881449
>Seagate ST31500341AS
>1.5GB

its way older than 1.5 years old.
its 10 year old bud.
fuck you.

here is the frimware update that you where supose to run on it.
let me guess you could be bothered updating.
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/207957en

>>59881485
>I couldn't read: the post

>>59881485
>Seagate ST31500341AS
>1.5GB
> its way older than 1.5 years old.

Are you not capable of reading the dates on my chart? My Seagate 1.5GB drives were purchased in 2009. That was 8 years ago, buddy. I don't know where you're getting this "1.5 years old" nonsense from.

>frimware update
Fuck firmware updates on drives. I never had to apply firmware updates to any other brand, because they always just worked out of the box, as is. I expect drives to work as sold to me. If not, the company can go fuck themselves, and I'll buy from a competent company instead.

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>tfw you droppy your floppy and lost 1.44MB of data over 25 years

Had hard drive technology reached its absolute peak now? Or will we ever get faster and/or larger capacity hard drives?

>>59881217
OP here.

Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001

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>>59880280
>2gb

Never lost a WD Black yet.

>>59881675
they're still pushing capacities up, and the enterprise market is still eating that up because they need to store so damn much stuff. The consumer market is a different story though. There's a lot of normies for whom a 128-256GB SSD is all they'll ever need (muh cloud), and that's bad for us because its the consumer market that's price-sensitive.

I bet we'll see the market split in two. The consumer end, dominated by 1TB and lower SSDs and a few HDDs of the type we see today (eg $100 3TB drives) and an enterprise market with larger, faster, and more durable SSDs, and truly enormous HDDs, with big giant enterprise price tags. You can have your 20-terabyte drive, but it'll cost you most of a thousand bucks.

>>59880280
Why is RAID not a backup?
How can I make a good redundant backup?

>>59882044
>>Why is RAID not a backup?
In a nutshell, RAID protects you against drives dying, but drives dying is only one way that you can lose data. Some things that RAID won't save you from that a proper offline backup will:
>cryptolocker ransomware
>deleting the wrong file
>lightning strike frying all your drives at once

Some of these things can be kinda-sorta approximated by modern RAID systems like ZFS or btrfs. Example, if you take snapshots, then accidentally delete a file, the filesystem will still have a copy, since it exists in a snapshot. If you have a giant media collection or something and can't afford a full backup, this is the best you can do. But stuff that's more important than anime should have real backups.

>How can I make a good redundant backup?
The rule of thumb is 3-2-1. Three copies of the data, using two different types of media (hard drives, optical disc, tape..) with at least one copy offline and offsite. It's the last bit that's the biggest pain for a home user, but its what protects your data against physical-world disasters, like your house burning down.

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>>59880280
>tfw OP fell for the no backups meme because he obviously didn't care about that data anyway.

>>59881449
Agreed Seagate is shit, at least their consumer drives are. I'm very surprised your Maxtors didn't fail though. I would have picked Seagate over Maxtor any day back then.

Hard drives are mechanical. Every single hard drive ever made will fail. Either keep your data backed up to some cloud service, or keep local back ups.

>>59881113
same, I had a WD Blue that failed with less than 1000 power on hours. I have two 2tb Seagates now

seagate is the worst piece of shit. had to destroy company hard drives for an internship. they barely bought seagates but the ones they did have all broke. everything i burned were all seagates

>>59882726
Do tell

>>59880280
I only use WD Black. Never fail.

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tfw I have 3 seagate drives that are 9+ years old and have never had an issue

>>59882824
>WD Nigger

It's like you want your data to be stolen

>>59882849
Nice meme.

>>/b/

>>59882861
Nice redirecting, newfag.

I'm using a Seagate Barracuda 2TB since 2013, still going strong

I have 6 seagate drives in raid 0 and I've never had a problem

edac-util: No errors to report.
  pool: drive_bay_usb
 state: ONLINE
  scan: scrub repaired 0 in 10h23m with 0 errors on Wed Apr  5 07:42:19 2017
config:

        NAME                                            STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        drive_bay_usb                                   ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz1-0                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
            usb-ST1000DL_004_HD105SI_152D00539000-0:0   ONLINE       0     0     0
            usb-TOSHIBA_DT01ACA100_152D00539000-0:1     ONLINE       0     0     0
            usb-WDC_WD10_EZEX-08WN4A0_152D00539000-0:2  ONLINE       0     0     0
            usb-ST1000NM_0011_152D00539000-0:3          ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

>tfw too intelligent for using drives without redundancy

>posts in ~10 threds
>no (You)s

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I'm building a new PC soon and I will go with WD. Should I go for Black or Blue? Cuz Blue is a hybrid between a SSD and HDD and I want higher speed large storage, but Black seems to be more reliable... Any suggestion?

pic related

Meanwhile my seagate barracuda 1TB lasted 8 years before beginning to have a few bad sectors.

@59883281
it's going to stay that way

>>59883524
>Cuz Blue is a hybrid between a SSD and HDD
No it's not? Bought pic related and it's just 5400RPM 2TB HDD.

Black is good I heard but very expensive.

>Mfw my data is literally what I care about the most in my life, and would kill myself if I lost it.
>Mfw no backups whatsoever because dirt poor, and the main drive I have stuff on is a Seagate.

I am slowly accepting my fate and waiting for the inevitable.

Also the other drives are old internals that I don't have an enclosure for, but only a faulty cable that has to be bent a certain way to work, and always fucks something up (so I have to waste so much time copying, then checking everything, then deleting, instead of just moving the files).

>>59883674
1) Black isn't expensive
2) It's a desktop drive
3) Why the fuck is anyone using desktop drives

SSD for OS/games/virtualization + NAS HDD or better HDD class for storage

>>59883742
You do realize that Seagate isn't terrible and they get all of their bad press of a single shitty desktop drive several years ago right? WD Reds are poorly made nowadays because they had to ramp up production so much. This shit is always changing and there are different HDD classes to choose from in the first place. The "several years ago" is important because the same site that noticed the failure rate also shows them no longer having the issue. People also forget that this happened after the flooding.

tl;dr company loyalty is bullshit and you should actually learn what goes into HDDs and what separates them

>>59883524
7200rpm blue. WD merged green and blues as just blue now, so don't buy a 5400 rpm blue (formerly green) drive. And not all blues are SSHDs. SSHDs are a meme anyways, the best value is just a regular old hard drive + a separate SSD for your boot drive. The main difference with blacks is that they have a better warranty.

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>>59881113
>tfw currently using 3 year old Seagate 3tb HDD that constantly makes screeching noises when in use
Living on the edge.

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>software RAID1
It just werks

In 17 years I've only had 2 drives die on me. A 5GB quantum and a 40GB maxtor. Failure-free for the last 12 years. I killed one by dropping shit on it but that doesn't count

Never got any Seagates.

>>59883852
>WD merged green and blues as just blue now, so don't buy a 5400 rpm blue (formerly green) drive.
Who cares if it's just stock movies, music and images. Besides they're still faster than older 7200rpm drives.

>>59880280
>tfw lost 2TB of chinese cartoons bdmv because shitgate
>mfw just redownload it

>>59880280
>>59880280

Hey op I do a hdd recovery business on the side, send it to me and I'll hook you up for $75

Let me know if you are interested and I'll give you my email

>>59883909
>downloaded 36000 dojins/CG/manga from sadpanda over the last 5 years

Would be pretty sad if it goes. It's all on raid1 so should be fine unless it burns down or something.

>>59880280
>>59883914


4chandata @ gmail

>>59880384
yeah instead google saves a copy of your shit for themselves

>trump supporter
>cant even distinguish between gb and tb
>or maybe 2gb is too much for his redneck computer needs and it really affects him
Checks out.

>>59880280
>2GB of data
>not having the data literally backed up in a flash drive

Same, learned my lesson. Even worse though I got the 3tb one and it lasted literally 11 months. My fucking 1tb samsung drive has worked perfectly for last 10 years and I'm still using it fine.

Buying a drive bigger than 2tb was dumb enough, buying a $50 seagate one was retarded.

>>59881642
underrated desu

is WD any good?

had segates and western digital fail on me

>>59884070
>disliking one person means you support the other person
>OP didn't even say if he supported anyone; simply used a reaction image
I get that you're buttblasted, but wew lad/xir.

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>>59880280
>tfw fell for the Seagate meme and bought a HDD that still werks after 9 years

>>59884100
Supposedly better than Seagate at least.

I have 5 WDs now and they are doing fine. The 9 year old 1TB Black can be a noisy fucker though. The newer 4 reds are pretty quiet even when heavily used

>>59881635
Bet you dont update drivers or bios versions or operating systems. WINDOWS XP CUZ FUCK UPDATING

ive only had WD Drives die on me. Seagates have been muh bread and butter. Have long since moved to SSD's. now living in the samsung promise land

>>59880280
Works on my machine.

>>59883524
Go with Hybrid. Honestly it's not that bad.

Hey, I'm planning to buy another hard drive for my build. Which brand should I go for?

So far, I see seagate and WD are huge no-nos, anything else?

>>59881449
1.5tb were notorious from everyone for having horrendous fail rates

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>>59881449
>buy two defective models
>WHY DID THEY FAIL?
Meanwhile...

>>59880280
muh 2TB Seagayte HDD still runs after 4 years, dropped it many times, unplugged it, dropped water on it,placed it in all sorts of positions

>>59884298
>>>/v/

Either a Hitachi HDD or a quality SSD.
Hybrids are sub-normie crap.

>>59884615
>Hitachi makes the best vibrators
>Hitachi makes the best hard drives
How do they do it?

>>59881695
Fuck, I have the same model. Do you live in the US anon?

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Im using the same 320gb wd blue i got in 2010, you shoudn't have got seagayte OP