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http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175089-who-makes-the-most-reliable-hard-drives

 

This is a very interesting article. I remember chatting with some people and one guy told me that Seagate hard drives fail easily (hence, he got a WD.)

 

These to graphs show that Seagate hard drives fail much earlier and have a higher chance then WD and Hitachi.

 

hard-drive-annual-failure-rate-hitachi-shard-drive-survival-rate-in-months-hitac

 

I've also read that the more capacity you have, the less longevity.

Do note that Backblaze use consumer drives, so Seagate would be the Barracuda family, WD Cavier Blacks, etc.

 

This concerns me because I have a Seagate Barracuda 3 TB.

 

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It's a lie. I've had Seagate hard drives last way over 10 years.

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Lol do you think Seagate would still be in business if these results were accurate?

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Well this is not good news for my RAID setup. (RAID 0 with a 1.5 year old 500GB Seagate Barracuda and two 500GB WD Caviar Greens that I got used. Don't yell at me.)

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My Seagate Barracuda 1 TB is making grinding noises under heavy load, but not clicking and same performance. I'll back it up, but not something I'll have to worry about right now.

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I think this was discussed quite a lot in the past and this stats are basically lies

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Where's Toshiba? Samsung?

 

 

I think WD's failure rates are a lot higher than you expected. I have 5 WD drives from 2008 die on me the month I bought them. Last year, I bought a WD external drive. I regret buying it. It died the week I bought it.

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It's a lie. I've had Seagate hard drives last way over 10 years.

That just means you didn't have bad luck. 

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That just means you didn't have bad luck. 

Yeah, read the post I made above.

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I think this was discussed quite a lot in the past and this stats are basically lies

Haven't seen a post to this but Backblaze is a company with server backup and they count their hard drives, I don't think they would have to lie.

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Is this not the article that used normal drives for home computers in server situations that they are not designed to do?.

Also look how many Seagate drives they have vs others? This is a useless article IMHO

 

 

 

Just like last time, this information comes from Backblaze, an all-you-can-eat online backup company. Backblaze currently has around 28,000 hard drives powered up and constantly spinning, storing a total of around 80,000 terabytes (80 petabytes) of user data.

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Is this not the article that used normal drives for home computers in server situations that they are not designed to do?.

Yep. This has been discussed on the forum already aswell.

 

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Since when did Seagate make a 1.5 TB version?

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http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175089-who-makes-the-most-reliable-hard-drives

 

This is a very interesting article. I remember chatting with some people and one guy told me that Seagate hard drives fail easily (hence, he got a WD.)

 

These to graphs show that Seagate hard drives fail much earlier and have a higher chance then WD and Hitachi.

 

I've also read that the more capacity you have, the less longevity.

Do note that Backblaze use consumer drives, so Seagate would be the Barracuda family, WD Cavier Blacks, etc.

 

This concerns me because I have a Seagate Barracuda 3 TB.

 

Any thoughts on this article?

 

blackblaze bought external seagate drives took out the casing and put them in an enterprise envioment

its stupid .......

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Since when did Seagate make a 1.5 TB version?

I don't know...

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This sounds like bullshit to me, for a start they have like 6x less WD drives than the other 2 and all the drives are of different ages, so how can you deduce that a new drive is more reliable than a 2 year old one if it hasn't had the same control period in which to fail?

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I've had to RMA a WD2500AAKX twice with less than 4 hours of use on each. Meanwhile, my Barracuda ATA IV finally gave up the ghost after 1/4 of the drive had bad sectors.

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I've also read that the more capacity you have, the less longevity.

Just want to point out that those graphs contradict that statement. 

The graphs show that more capacity = more longevity (the 4TB's fail less annually than the 3TB for example).

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Yeah these are bullshit results, don't believe this crap.

Linus talked about this before on a livestream a couple years ago...

Plus those graphs are way outdated.

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Linus talked about this before on a livestream a couple years ago...

on a livestream a couple years ago...

a couple years ago...

years ago...

WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE??? D:

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WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE??? D:

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U WOT M8

I started watching Linus over a year before the first live stream. 

Live streams have occurred years ago? That means a lot of time has past. Where has the time gone? D:

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I started watching Linus over a year before the first live stream. 

Live streams have occurred years ago? That means a lot of time has past. Where has the time gone? D:

Yea man, look at when the first (archived) stream happened:

http://www.twitch.tv/linustech/b/334587924

2 years ago

 

All dat time has gone swirling down the drain, like your life.

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blackblaze bought external seagate drives took out the casing and put them in an enterprise envioment

its stupid .......

It said in the article that they were Barracuda 7200 rpm.

 

Where did you find that info? Obviously external hard drives would die sooner.

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