Are Seagate Barracuda HDDs any good?

[Varpin]

Hello!

 

Basically what the title says... Are the Seagate Barracuda HDDs any good? I read some reviews and people said that they broke after 3 years. I had a 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD in my old PC what I got in 2008 or 2009 and the HDD still works! What's the case now tough? I'm planning to buy a 3TB HDD and WD HDDs are notably more expensive than Seagates.

 

Thank you!

[Litargirio]

Yes.

 

Of course they break. Eventually. Like everything.

 

Reason you hear about them breaking more often than not is cause lots of people use them.

[SCHISCHKA]

you can judge quality by the warranty period. That reflects the confidence the manufacturer places on their product. Some WD cost more because they give longer warranties, the blue drives however are very cheap.

[Varpin]

@Litargirio But do they break that fast? My hdd old Seagate HDD what I told about still works and it's almost 8 years old. It would be nice to see a HDD atleast work for 5 years... 3 years is quite short time.

[babadoctor]

my seagate 2tb died after 3 months 

never trust them

[Litargirio]

1 minute ago, Varpin said:

@Litargirio But do they break that fast?

No.

[Varpin]

@Litargirio Okay, awesome! Thank you  

[WoodenMarker]

23 minutes ago, Varpin said:

@Litargirio But do they break that fast? My hdd old Seagate HDD what I told about still works and it's almost 8 years old. It would be nice to see a HDD atleast work for 5 years... 3 years is quite short time.

People who have issues tend to leave negative feedback whereas those who had a good experience stay quiet. Barracudas are fine. 

[LAwLz]

That entirely depends on which drive you are planning on buying. Overall, Seagate drives are more reliable than Western Digital drives, but all HDD manufacturers has some unreliable drives.

 

Stats from hardware.fr (uses the return rates from a large french retailer as their source):

Italics = They only sold 100-200 drives, so the sample size is deemed small and not as accurate as for the rest

Spoiler

• HGST 0,60% (contre 0,81%)
• Seagate 0,69% (contre 0,60%)
• Western 1,00% (contre 0,90%)
• Toshiba 1,15% (contre 0,96%)

HGST, qui fait pour rappel partie du groupe Western Digital, passe devant Seagate. Toshiba est en dernière place mais il faut préciser qu'au contraire des 3 autres, chez Toshiba le retour se fait nécessairement par l'intermédiaire du revendeur.

Voici les 5 disques les moins fiables, avec dans 2 cas des ventes des ventes qui sont dans l'intervalle basse et donc en italique (100-200 pièces) :

• 4,32% WD Black 4 To WD4003FZEX
• 3,59% Toshiba DT01ACA300 3 To
• 2,88% Toshiba DT01ACA200 2 To
• 2,39% Toshiba PA4291E-1HJ0 1 To
• WD Blue Mobile 1 To WD10SPCX

Voici les classements obtenus par capacité en 3.5" pour les disques vendus à plus de 100 exemplaires (italique pour 100 à 200 ventes) :

2 To :

• 2,88% Toshiba DT01ACA200
• 1,38% WD Green WD20EZRX
• 1,06% Seagate Desktop SSHD ST2000DX001
• 1,02% Toshiba PA4292E-1HL0
• 0,97% WD Red WD20EFRX
• 0,87% WD Black WD2003FZEX
• 0,75% WD Purple WD20PURX
• 0,68% Seagate Barracuda 7200.14
• 0,40% Seagate NAS HDD ST2000VN000
• 0,28% Seagate Surveillance HDD ST2000VX000
• 0,00% WD Re WD2000FYYZ
• 0,00% Seagate Enterprise Capacity ST2000NM0033
• 0,00% WD Red Pro WD2001FFSX

3 To :

• 3,59% Toshiba DT01ACA300
• 2,17% WD Black WD3003FZEX
• 1,75% WD Red Pro
• 1,55% Seagate NAS HDD ST3000VN000
• 1,49% Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001
• 1,31% Western Red WD30EFRX
• 0,99% Toshiba PA4293E-1HN0
• 0,97% Seagate Surveillance HDD ST3000VX000
• 0,93% WD Green WD30EZRX

4 To :

• 4,32% WD Black WD4003FZEX
• 1,91% Seagate Desktop HDD.15 ST4000DM000
• 1,70% WD Green WD40EZRX
• 1,66% WD Red WD40EFRX
• 1,24% Toshiba PX3009E-1HP0
• 1,22% Seagate Desktop SSHD ST4000DX001
• 1,20% Seagate Constellation ES ST4000NM0033
• 0,79% Seagate NAS HDD ST4000VN000
• 0,60% WD Purple WD40PURX
• 0,57% Hitachi Deskstar NAS
• 0,34% Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000

5 / 6 To :

• 1,94% Toshiba PX3010E-1HQ0
• 1,70% WD Red WD60EFRX
• 0,47% WD Green WD60EZRX
• 0,00% WD Red WD50EFRX

 

[porina]

It is best not to think which one is least likely to break, but to assume it will break and have a plan in place before it does so. Personally I'd buy whatever is the cheapest for the desired capacity/performance level (often Toshiba), but also plan on having a backup of data.