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Well that confirms my anti-seagate bias is not unjustified. Fairly obvious somewhere in Seagate's management chain, there are people making purposeful decision
by ck2 11y ago
Well that confirms my anti-seagate bias is not unjustified.
Fairly obvious somewhere in Seagate's management chain, there are people making purposeful decisions to cut corners with quality and care in manufacturing.
By the way, didn't Google research show that smart data is not a good predictor of drive failure? Or was that just on SSD?
- theandrewbailey 11y agoThey did, in 2007. Things might have changed by now. https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
- chiph 11y agoTheir failure rate has dropped quite a bit so far in 2015, so it looks like they've made changes to correct their previous poor failure rate. Still a long way to go to become the front-runner, but they're going in the right direction at least.
- dplgk 11y agoI'd be surprised if they just not finally decided to improve since I have the same feeling as ck2 due to anecdotal experience dating back to the year 2000.