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Originally Posted by Manabi
Seagate can be okay, or it can be the worst hard drive you ever bought. Their 3TB drives are awful. I bought five of them in 2012, installed them in February of 2013. Three are already dead as a doornail, a fourth is failing. Two died totally last year (one in October, other one in November), one last week. Backblaze, who buys insane amounts of consumer level drives, has also had high failure rates with them. (That bar graph speaks volumes.) The 4TB Seagates have been doing better, and have much lower failure rates in reports since then, but the 1.5 - 3TB Seagates continue to have high failure rates for Backblaze.
I've been replacing them with HGST (aka, Hitachi) drives, since those had the best reliability by far in Backblaze's reports. I have another HGST drive to replace that failing drive, but haven't had a chance to swap it out yet. After that one, the remaining 2012 Seagate shows as 93% health in SpeedFan and is apparently going to be okay for a while. I still don't trust it and am going to replace it with an HGST drive as soon as I can afford it.
So I'd suggest you don't rely on Seagate drives as your sole backup source. |
Thanks for all the valuable information. I didn't know that.
Only had smaller than 1.5TB HDD and they survive well (4-5 years). I did have WD which failed within a year, so I don't buy WD.
Too bad Backblaze doesn't have stats for the 1TB (it only has them for WD).
Next time I'll look for Hitachi. Had an IDE one way-back-when and it held very nicely (like 8 years?). Learn every day...
Anyhow, this model has some nice reviews (like on
Cnet ) and I *think* it's a different model (STDRxxxxx vs. STxxxxxx) so here's hoping that it'll be good...