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[–] punkwalrus@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Yeah, but it's Seagate. I have worked in data centers, and Seagate drives had the most failures of all my drives and somehow is still in business. I'd say I was doing an RMA of 5-6 drives a month that were Seagate, and only 4-5 a year Western Digital.

[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What models of Seagate drives?

I've been running x4 Seagate ST8000NC0002s 24/7 for almost 5 years, plus 2 more I added about 6 months ago and they've never given me any trouble.

To be fair, the only HDDs I've ever had that failed were two I dropped because I wasn't being careful enough.

[–] punkwalrus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

All over the map: Barracuda, SkyHawk, Ironwolf, Constellation, Cheetah, etc...

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