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had my seagate 3tb drive for about a year now, and no issues, computer is on about 12 hours a day and the drive is in use for half of that time.

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Are the Seagate 2TB and 3TB Barracuda drives any good? Does Seagate still have the high drive failure rate? Thanks!

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Just wondering but could you give me more explanation about this?

There is a thread somewhere on this forum, data about Seagate failures, (NOT the debunked BackBlaze ones), that showed that Seagate drives were fine, other than the 3TB 3.5" and the 1Tb 1.5"

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had my seagate 3tb drive for about a year now, and no issues, computer is on about 12 hours a day and the drive is in use for half of that time.

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had my seagate 3tb drive for about a year now, and no issues, computer is on about 12 hours a day and the drive is in use for half of that time.

 

There is a thread somewhere on this forum, data about Seagate failures, (NOT the debunked BackBlaze ones), that showed that Seagate drives were fine, other than the 3TB 3.5" and the 1Tb 1.5"

 

So say I ordered some 3TB drives should I cancel the order and go with another company for them? They are going to be used in a Proxmox server with a NAS (Just tinkering with Virtualization if it doesn't work out then no NAS) and about 25 VM's going at the same time..

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Just wondering but could you give me more explanation about this? 

there is like a 40% failure rate for 3TB seagate drives

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Go for HGST instead!! those are rock solid

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Go for HGST instead!! those are rock solid

Isn't it part of WD? 

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i wouldent touch the seagate ones over 1tb they have a high fail rate, i would go for the western digitals instead 

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i wouldent touch the seagate ones over 1tb they have a high fail rate, i would go for the western digitals instead

Can't already have the Seagate drives..

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i have 15 seagate 2tb Hdd i have been running 24/7 for the past few years  and 8 4tb Seagate hdd i have been running 24/7 for the past year with no issues touch wood* , drives perform great.

the 8 2tb WD greens i had all passed away within the first 8 months

 

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i have 15 seagate 2tb Hdd i have been running 24/7 for the past few years  and 8 4tb Seagate hdd i have been running 24/7 for the past year with no issues touch wood* , drives perform great.

the 8 2tb WD greens i had all passed away within the first 8 months

 

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welcome to the forums, that's one hell of a story.

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thanks long time lurker will make a post and list my storage build in the appropriate thread when i take some pictures 

 

sorry for the side track  

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Are the Seagate 2TB and 3TB Barracuda drives any good? Does Seagate still have the high drive failure rate? Thanks!

My 3tb drive just died, I would avoid. Plus, drives more than two terabytes have other complications, so multiples of 2tb drives is good.

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I also have a segate 3tb drive in my gaming rig. Ive had it for 2 years with no problems at all.

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I got the drives 2 days ago (live near newegg warehouse) and have been running them 24x7 with the 2TB drives in Raid-Z (Raid 0) and the 3TB for important stuff and backups of all the computers in the house

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