The Hate on Seagate...

[Shira]

After building PCs for some ~18 years I've had multitude of drives in my own systems as well as others I built for family, friends, for sale etc, and honestly I must agree with the hate for Seagate. Most issues and dying drives I've had have been from Seagate, besides a lot more noisy than others like Samsung (when they still made HDDs) and WD. Can't comment on whether it's any better lately as I've been sticking strictly to WD for the last 4-5 years, so there's at least that. That doesn't mean I've had no issues with WD, but they've been far less.

[MblaZe7run]

I feel like I'm late to the party, but of all 12 drives I've had, 10 were WD/HGST drives (all HGST drives were manufactured after the acquisition, and two were Seagate. I've only ever had two drives fail. Guess which two? 

I've never bashed on Seagate though. I've owned only 12 HDD in my life, and I've almost always bought WD/HGST unless Seagate was my only option, and those two happen to have failed. /shrug

[Ophidio]

21 minutes ago, MblaZe7run said:

I feel like I'm late to the party, but of all 12 drives I've had, 10 were WD/HGST drives (all HGST drives were manufactured after the acquisition, and two were Seagate. I've only ever had two drives fail. Guess which two? 

I've never bashed on Seagate though. I've owned only 12 HDD in my life, and I've almost always bought WD/HGST unless Seagate was my only option, and those two happen to have failed. /shrug

Recently after starting this thread I've questioned whether or not it depends on your at home environment is like on how well harddrives last because I've only had WDs fail never a seagate. I still use WD though because drives are just luck of the draw for me. 

[themctipers]

I had a Seagate hdd in my laptop

didnt even last a year. 

I have a wd green from 2009 and it still works well

[Kotes]

I can only add two things to this thread; 1. I have a 1tb Seagate hybrid hdd. almost a year, works perfectly. I also have an old tower from when I was much younger that my father helped me build. I used it for about 2-3 years as a kid. It has a 40gb seagate barracuda drive and still boots. I Passed it on to his gf's son and he used that pc for a bit over a year.

[trag1c]

I just bought my first Seagate drives to test the waters for my self. 5 4TB Seagate NAS drives for a RAID 6 array in a 2U 12 bay supermicro chassis. This going to be a business NAS so hopefully things won't crash but thats what offsite backups are for. Ill post back here if I have any traumatic experiences.

[Ophidio]

14 minutes ago, trag1c said:

I just bought my first Seagate drives to test the waters for my self. 5 4TB Seagate NAS drives for a RAID 6 array in a 2U 12 bay supermicro chassis. This going to be a business NAS so hopefully things won't crash but thats what offsite backups are for. Ill post back here if I have any traumatic experiences.

NICE! Seagate NAS drives are built really well, there's always the chance of a bad experience but just from what I've read and videos I've seen Seagate NAS tend to be better than WD Red NAS drives. Can't wait until I can built a NAS like that just for my own personal house to have. May I ask what other components were used in this build?

[toms94z71]

I have only had WD drives fail on me, I still use them though, they still lasted better then 3 years before failing. I got a 3tb segate that is over 2 years old that my steam libray and about 100 movies are on so it sees a lot of use and it is still going just fine. My Laptop that is coming up on 6 years old has 2 500gb segate hybrid drives in it and they have seen a lot of use over the years and are still going fine. 

[trag1c]

14 hours ago, Ophidio said:

NICE! Seagate NAS drives are built really well, there's always the chance of a bad experience but just from what I've read and videos I've seen Seagate NAS tend to be better than WD Red NAS drives. Can't wait until I can built a NAS like that just for my own personal house to have. May I ask what other components were used in this build?

Yeah the Seagate drives had a much better value too. I payed $169.99 CAD for each drive where as the 4TB WD Red was $199.99 CAD per drive. Having a NAS is the home is greatest thing ever since sliced bread. I have been using mine with a single 320GB Hitachi I had lying around (This one is over 8 years old.) till I could afford proper drives and even with that it has simplified my life. I never have to open my laptop to transfer a file to my desktop or vice versa, its all simply available to which ever machine needs it.  

 

As far as components go I bought the server used on ebay for around $550.00 USD shipped.

Case: 2U  Supermicro CSE-826A-R800LPB SuperChassis with 12 hotswap drive bays

Motherboard:  X8DTN+ Motherboard with AOC-SIMLP-3 IPMI Card

Processor(s):  2 x Intel Xeon E5645 2.4Ghz Six Core

RAM: 24GB 6x4GB ECC Registered Dimms 

PSU: Dual PWS-801-1R  800W redundant power supplies.

GPU: ASUS GT 610 Silent (Just added this today so that I could use Blender network rendering as the on board graphics doesn't support OpenGL 2.1)

Storage: 1x 60GB Corsair boot SSD, 1x 320GB Hitachi, soon to be 5x 4TB Seagate NAS drives but I ran out of hard drive screws and need to wait for some to ship. 

RAID Card: Adaptec 5805 512MB RAID card with battery back up unit.

OS: Windows 10 Pro (Probably going to change this to Windows Server 2012 at somepoint.)

 

All I really need for it now is a UPS and a couple 10Gb ethernet cards.

[Evilsnowman100]

They only thing that has ever happened to me while using a Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200rpm hard drive was that the drive made noises that it shouldn't make. While it was annoying and I took it back, every other drive has the chance for this to happen so I don't understand what the deal is about all the hate.