A testament to Seagate

[Vaellera]

After several years of using the same hard drive I've finally decided to run a diagnostic on the drive and the results kind of blew my mind

 

Drive: Seagate ST31000528AS

read speed: 92Mbps

total power on time: 32,000 hours (no that's not a typo)

drive health: 100%

 

and a side note, this drive was severely over heated during it first week of operation reaching temperatures of 140 deg F

 

If this isn't a poster child for Seagate I don't know what is.

[Raudi_]

After several years of using the same hard drive I've finally decided to run a diagnostic on the drive and the results kind of blew my mind

 

Drive: Seagate ST31000528AS

read speed: 92Mbps

total power on time: 32,000 hours (no that's not a typo)

drive health: 100%

 

and a side note, this drive was severely over heated during it first week of operation reaching temperatures of 140 deg F

 

If this isn't a poster child for Seagate I don't know what is.

Try a SATA I 80GB drive from them that has been running since SATA was introduced and still works fine and has 100% health 

[Godlygamer23]

Results for my WD Blue 320GB.

[ZetZet]

There is no evidence that Seagate is bad except people whining.

 

Their experiment with 1.5TB drives kinda failed, but every company has those failures.

[Godlygamer23]

There is no evidence that Seagate is bad except people whining.

 

Their experiment with 1.5TB drives kinda failed, but every company has those failures.

Every company has product failure - it's going to happen when they're mass produced.

[Raudi_]

Every company has product failure - it's going to happen when they're mass produced.

i.e. WD and the dual drive they did 

[AnonymousGuy]

Here's a poster child for how crap Seagate is:

 

 

Those are all RMAs from the past 2 months alone and I refuse to put that shit back into service because it's tiring as fuck replacing a drive every 24 hours because it completely fails.

 

Seagate has been shit compared to WD for as long as I can remember (10+ years) but I was like "eh I'll give them a chance".  Nope.  Still shit.

[Vaellera]

Here's a poster child for how crap Seagate is:

 

 

Those are all RMAs from the past 2 months alone and I refuse to put that shit back into service because it's tiring as fuck replacing a drive every 24 hours because it completely fails.

 

Seagate has been shit compared to WD for as long as I can remember (10+ years) but I was like "eh I'll give them a chance".  Nope.  Still shit.

That's surprising, I've actually had more issued with WD drives than seagate 

[ZetZet]

Here's a poster child for how crap Seagate is:

 

 

 

Those are all RMAs from the past 2 months alone and I refuse to put that shit back into service because it's tiring as fuck replacing a drive every 24 hours because it completely fails.

 

Seagate has been shit compared to WD for as long as I can remember (10+ years) but I was like "eh I'll give them a chance".  Nope.  Still shit.

if a drive fails every 24 hours you are doing something wrong. Or seagate is a genius company and they can make 730 drives for the cost of one and replace them every day while still turning profit.

[FizzyFantom]

Hard drives are pretty much random across the board. There are only 3 manufacturers now and I wouldn't distrust any of them with my data. I have some ancient drives that still work fine and I've seen some die in a matter of years, they are sort of random.

 

The only drives I would advise people avoid are 3TB drives. Independent of manufacturer they seem to have a far higher failure rate than their 1, 2 or 4TB counterparts.

[Necrodead]

if a drive fails every 24 hours you are doing something wrong. Or seagate is a genius company and they can make 730 drives for the cost of one and replace them every day while still turning profit.

Since I see some server stuff to the right I'm assuming hes trying to save money by using home grade hardware in a server envronment and expecting it to work, probably in raid.

[The_Stig]

The only 'bad' hard drive was an DOA WD Blue 1tb. I didn't RMA it because my friend had some old HDD that he wanted to use instead.

[Midnitewarrior4]

had a seagate drive at 26k hours that failed, my wd drive thats older that has a little over 26k hours is still 100% health, idk i just like wd more, so far ive had 5 wd drives and all are still going strong and the first sea gate drive i have owned is now dead

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

if a drive fails every 24 hours you are doing something wrong. Or seagate is a genius company and they can make 730 drives for the cost of one and replace them every day while still turning profit.

 

Actually no, those drives are the 3TB ones that they produced during the Thailand floodings.  Those have a 33% annual failure rate officially, but from experience (both AnonymousGuy's and mine) the actual number is much higher. 

 

I used to install those drives in customer PCs because there was nothing else available here at that point in time.  ALL of them died within 24 months.

 

Seagate in general isn't that bad, but they had several horrible models that are still on store shelves.

 

Since I see some server stuff to the right I'm assuming hes trying to save money by using home grade hardware in a server envronment and expecting it to work, probably in raid.

That's irrelevant. WD and HGST consumer drives are having much lower failure rates when used in server environments. It's only Seagates that can't handle it.

Also, I've seen the same kinds of failure rates in regular PCs that had one or two hard drives.

[AnonymousGuy]

if a drive fails every 24 hours you are doing something wrong. Or seagate is a genius company and they can make 730 drives for the cost of one and replace them every day while still turning profit.

 

I'll clarify, I was getting 1 drive failing every 24 hours when I started mixing in their "recertified" drives that I got back on RMA.  I would generally have about 1 failure a week when all the drives were new. 

 

It's also now accepted practice to put "consumer" drives in home arrays.  Backblaze does it, Google does it, etc.  The 3x expensive "enterprise" drives are more for gigantic hard drive arrays (24+ drives all next to each other) with racks above and below each other.  You also get a 5 year warranty with the enterprise drives vs 2 or 3 years with consumer ones.

 

WD even says their Red's are OK up to 5 or 8 drive arrays (can't remember) and only need to bump up to the Red Pro's for 16 drive arrays and Re / Se for 20+ drive arrays.