Posted June 17, 2021 Which is the best company making Hard-drives? Is Seagate the best? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 17, 2021 3 minutes ago, Alex-Bubbler-Leo said: Which is the best company making Hard-drives? Is Seagate the best? Seagate is not the best. There is no "best" company for making any products. All companies have the capability of making both good and bad product lines. All products can (and will) eventually fail. When it comes to hard drives, assume the drive is failing the moment its first powered on. Why? Because anything mechanical begins to fail as soon as it starts to move - it's just a matter of time before it catastrophically fails. How do you overcome this? Backup your data and have hot-spares on hand so you can swap in a new drive when one fails. Desktop: KiRaShi-Intel-2022 (i5-12600K, RTX2060) Mobile: OnePlus 5T | Koodo - 75GB Data + Data Rollover for $45/month Laptop: Dell XPS 15 9560 (the real 15" MacBook Pro that Apple didn't make) Tablet: iPad Mini 5 | Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 10.1 Camera: Canon M6 Mark II | Canon Rebel T1i (500D) | Canon SX280 | Panasonic TS20D Music: Spotify Premium (CIRCA '08) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 17, 2021 Author 1 minute ago, kirashi said: Seagate is not the best. There is no "best" company for making any products. All companies have the capability of making both good and bad product lines. All products can (and will) eventually fail. When it comes to hard drives, assume the drive is failing the moment its first powered on. Why? Because anything mechanical begins to fail as soon as it starts to move - it's just a matter of time before it catastrophically fails. How do you overcome this? Backup your data and have hot-spares on hand so you can swap in a new drive when one fails. Thanks!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 17, 2021 Hard Drive Failure Rates for Q1 2021 (backblaze.com) PC Setup: HYTE Y60 White/Black + Custom ColdZero ventilation sidepanel Intel Core i7-10700K + Corsair Hydro Series H100x G.SKILL TridentZ RGB 32GB (F4-3600C16Q-32GTZR) ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 3080Ti OC LC ASUS ROG STRIX Z490-G GAMING (Wi-Fi) Samsung EVO Plus 1TB Samsung EVO Plus 1TB Crucial MX500 2TB Crucial MX300 1TB Corsair HX1200i Peripherals: Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 G95NC 57" Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 32" ASUS ROG Harpe Ace Aim Lab Edition Wireless ASUS ROG Claymore II Wireless ASUS ROG Sheath BLK LTD' Corsair SP2500 Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO X (Limited Editon) & Beyerdynamic TYGR 300R + FiiO K7 DAC/AMP RØDE VideoMic II + Elgato WAVE Mic Arm Racing SIM Setup: Sim-Lab GT1 EVO Sim Racing Cockpit + Sim-Lab GT1 EVO Single Screen holder Svive Racing D1 Seat Samsung Odyssey G9 49" Simagic Alpha Mini Simagic GT4 (Dual Clutch) CSL Elite Pedals V2 Logitech K400 Plus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 17, 2021 It usually differs with the drive models, some are never dying, running strong several years, while other models die within months or weeks. But it is the same with most drive manufacturers... If you want to know about reliability, go to backblazes website and look at their drive reliability blog Main System: Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX. System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX. On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060 (Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing) Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 17, 2021 I have drives that have been working without error since the late 90’s, most of the time drive failures come down to fluke error, not always something predictable, commonly caused by user error, but the ones not caused by that, it’s not something that could really be prevented. There’s a 1.1gb hard drive in my 1997 micron transport XPE which has a SMART reported uptime of around 52k hours, and a power on count of 12k cycles. By all means this drive should be dead, but it’s fine. Hard drives are weird like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 17, 2021 17 minutes ago, 8tg said: I have drives that have been working without error since the late 90’s, most of the time drive failures come down to fluke error, not always something predictable, commonly caused by user error, but the ones not caused by that, it’s not something that could really be prevented. There’s a 1.1gb hard drive in my 1997 micron transport XPE which has a SMART reported uptime of around 52k hours, and a power on count of 12k cycles. By all means this drive should be dead, but it’s fine. Hard drives are weird like that. I can't keep up with a HDD from the 90s but I have a Hitachi HDD from 2009 that still runs perfectly. Also heavily used. Just won't die. I kinda love it. PC Setup: HYTE Y60 White/Black + Custom ColdZero ventilation sidepanel Intel Core i7-10700K + Corsair Hydro Series H100x G.SKILL TridentZ RGB 32GB (F4-3600C16Q-32GTZR) ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 3080Ti OC LC ASUS ROG STRIX Z490-G GAMING (Wi-Fi) Samsung EVO Plus 1TB Samsung EVO Plus 1TB Crucial MX500 2TB Crucial MX300 1TB Corsair HX1200i Peripherals: Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 G95NC 57" Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 32" ASUS ROG Harpe Ace Aim Lab Edition Wireless ASUS ROG Claymore II Wireless ASUS ROG Sheath BLK LTD' Corsair SP2500 Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO X (Limited Editon) & Beyerdynamic TYGR 300R + FiiO K7 DAC/AMP RØDE VideoMic II + Elgato WAVE Mic Arm Racing SIM Setup: Sim-Lab GT1 EVO Sim Racing Cockpit + Sim-Lab GT1 EVO Single Screen holder Svive Racing D1 Seat Samsung Odyssey G9 49" Simagic Alpha Mini Simagic GT4 (Dual Clutch) CSL Elite Pedals V2 Logitech K400 Plus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 17, 2021 20 minutes ago, 8tg said: I have drives that have been working without error since the late 90’s, most of the time drive failures come down to fluke error, not always something predictable, commonly caused by user error, but the ones not caused by that, it’s not something that could really be prevented. There’s a 1.1gb hard drive in my 1997 micron transport XPE which has a SMART reported uptime of around 52k hours, and a power on count of 12k cycles. By all means this drive should be dead, but it’s fine. Hard drives are weird like that. I still have a Quantum Lighting 512 MByte going strong in my good old amiga =) I think from around 1994 Main System: Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX. System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX. On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060 (Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing) Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 17, 2021 Author Solution Hello everyone, because of this post (image 1) I would like you to stop replying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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