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Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity) (www.guru3d.com)
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[–] SupraMario 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

I stopped buying seagates when I had 4 of their 2TB barracuda drives die within 6 months... constantly was RMAing them. Finally got pissed and sold them and bought WD reds, still got 2 of the reds in my Nas Playing hot backups with nearly 8 years of power time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I have several WDs with almost 15 years of power on time, not a single failure. Whereas my work bought a bunch of Seagates and our cluster was basically halved after less than 2 years. I have no idea how Seagate can suck so much.

[–] SupraMario 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

About 10 years ago now, at a past employer, had a NAS setup that housed a bunch of medical data....all seagate drives. During my xmas PTO...I was lead on DR...yea fuckers all started failing one after another. Took out 14 drives before the storage team said fuck this pulled it offline and had a new NAS brought in from EMC, was a fun xmas restoring all that shit. Seagate used to be my go to, but it seems like every single interaction I have with them ends in disaster.

[–] kalleboo 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Seagate was my go-to after I had bought those original IBM DeathStars and had to RMA the RMA replacement drive after a few months. But brand loyalty is for suckers. It seemed Seagate had a really bad run after they acquired Maxstor who always had a bad reputation.

[–] SupraMario 2 points 2 days ago

Maxstor... that is a name I have not heard in a long time lol

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