Are Seagate hard drives that bad

[Photonic]

Everyone seems to joke about them being very unreliable i have a 2TB 7200 rpm Barracuda i have had for almost 2 years and it has not failed

[NicekillBG]

Its like Lord Bendtner

[Fluxx]

I had two 500gb one's in raid 0 for almost 6 years in my old pc without any problems. 

[19_blackie_73]

may be a problem of the current drives? or only an attempt to put seagate down? dunno, i'm happy with my 1tb seagate drive, works since june fine:D

[MrChavelo]

My dad's had a Seagate drive in his desktop for over 8 years now. It does start making noise now, though

[thekeemo]

Its just the 3tb drive

[Guest]

Not all of them are bad

 

Just don't get anything above 4TB as they are the ones that usually fail (I think )

[sms1202]

I don't think its that bad

All the kids saying its bad must be adbots

[Altecice]

The only bad Seagate drives are the 3TB Barracuda's and the 1TB 2.5". This is where the whole ' Seagate are bad ' came from.

[Bob Jim]

My dad's had a Seagate drive in his desktop for over 8 years now. It does start making noise now, though

To be fair 8 years is a hella long time.

[Wano97]

The only bad Seagate drives are the 3TB Barracuda's and the 1TB 2.5". This is where the whole ' Seagate are bad ' came from.

That's unfortunate to hear... What's wrong with them? I'm using a 3TB Barracuda atm

[W-L]

Everyone seems to joke about them being very unreliable i have a 2TB 7200 rpm Barracuda i have had for almost 2 years and it has not failed

 

It's mainly a lot of mis-information due to the backblaze thing where they were the highest failing drives they tested, but due to improper testing, sample size and amongst other things their data while useful should be taken with a grain of salt for it's accuracy.

 

Overall theses days most HDD manufacturers are pretty much on the same level in terms of reliability and the technology they put into them.

[SeanAngelo]

Everyone seems to joke about them being very unreliable i have a 2TB 7200 rpm Barracuda i have had for almost 2 years and it has not failed

i personally stay away from any seagate products, had 2 hard drives and 1 external hard drive fail on my the last 5 years.

 

WD is love <3

[Altecice]

That's unfortunate to hear... What's wrong with them? I'm using a 3TB Barracuda atm

 

High failure rates. But if yours is working then it will be fine. (3/6 month failures are high)

[ZetZet]

That's unfortunate to hear... What's wrong with them? I'm using a 3TB Barracuda atm

Nothing in particular, just a couple of bad batches, overall Seagate is as reliable as any other brand and since you can get two Seagate Desktop hdd's for the price of one WD Black...

[KemoKa]

My parents have an iMac that has gone through about five hard drive replacements. All Seagate 1TB hard drives. They are all dead.

 

Hitachi drives are where it's at, in my opinion. I don't hear about them dying nearly as much as Seagate.

[Blebekblebek]

there's always a batch of series from their product happens to be a bad product

 

first major notice when they release 750GB drive

2nd one was 1.5TB

and last time is their 2TB line up

 

and that was after major flood in thailand.

 

if there's recent hiccups, I might not notice it, I haven't look up to add more storage.

[vetali]

I see it really as a luck of the draw thing. I hear bad things about all the drive makers. I also hear good things. I guess it depends how much your package was thrown around in shipment. 

[Speedyv]

I just prefer WD because of my experience with them

[TheMcSame]

Honestly? I think it's an exaggerated thing tbh, backblaze's results don't help (whether you believe them or not is another matter that isn't worth discussing, it just ends in a fanboy war). In fact, Seagate don't help themselves with the barracudas with their cheap ass 1 year warranty. 

 

I wouldn't completely rule them out as a company... Though personally I wont touch things with 1 year warranties if I can help it. Tbf it's all luck, I had a 2 year old momentus die off a few days ago (been on it's last legs for a while) but I ripped another momentus out my 360 which is almost 5 years old and seems to be going strong.

[Naijin]

Two 1TB barracuda's in Raid 0 never failed on me for a couple of years, up until now.

[Paralectic]

They are as bad as WD.

[kameshss]

I build lots of PCs to my friends and relatives. Some of the people other than I build PC to them they complain about Seagate drives failing. I've almost 20 of waste andd useless drives. All of them are Seagate. I haven't heard anything bad about WD drives. But some of the older Seagate drives are good. Like IDE drives.

[blackadder]

If they sucked they wouldn't be in business anymore.

[Nineshadow]

Seagate Barracudas are better than WD Blues honestly.

 

Dunno what to say about high capacity ones though ( > 3TB ) .