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Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity) (www.guru3d.com)
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[โ€“] Steak@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Not worth the risk for me to find out lol. My granddaddy stored his data on WD drives and his daddy before him, and my daddy after him. Now I store my data on WD drives and my son will to one day. Such is life.

[โ€“] kalpol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

And here I am with HGST drives hitting 50k hours

Edit: no one ever discusses the Backblaze reliability statistics. Its interesting to see how they stack up against the anecdotes.