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Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity) (www.guru3d.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Haven’t bought Seagate in 15 years. They improve their longevity?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Nice data but I stick with Toshiba old HGST and WD. For me they seem to last much longer than Seagate

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Vastly. I'm running all seagate ironwolf pros. Best drives Ive ever used.

Used to be WD all the way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I’m going to have to pass though. They cost too much. I buy refurb with 5 year warranty

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I have one Seagate drive. It's a 500 GB that came in my 2006 Dell Dimension E510 running XP Media Center. When that died in 2011, I put it in my custom build. It ran until probably 2014, when suddenly I was having issues booting and I got a fresh WD 1 TB. Put it in a box, and kept it for some reason. Fast forward to 2022, I got another Dell E510 with only an 80 GB. Dusted off the old 500 GB and popped it in. Back with XP Media Center. The cycle is complete. That drive is still noisy as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

My personal experience has been hit n miss.

Was using one 4TB Seagate for 11 years then bought a newer model to replace it since I thought it was gonna die any day. That new one died within 6 months. The old one still works although I don't use it for for anything important now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I bought 16TB one as an urgent replacement for a failing raid.
It arrived defective, so I can't speak on the longevity.