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Please remember that back blaze was cracking open external hard drives in that case. Also, at the time, one of the large HDD manufacturers lost their main build
by cyphar 10y ago
Please remember that back blaze was cracking open external hard drives in that case. Also, at the time, one of the large HDD manufacturers lost their main build plants. So who knows where Seagate got their components from in that 1-2 year period. Given the fact that Seagate's 4TB hard drives are considered by back blaze as the best HDDs, I find it a little odd that everyone assumes that manufacturing issues 4 years ago affect drives being built today.
Also, back blaze statistics only apply if you're operating at back blaze's scale. If you're making a home NAS you would have to be _incredibly_ unlucky to hit a bad drive as quickly as back blaze did. I
- ultramancool 10y agoI've anecdotally experienced very high failure rates on them too, had 3/6 fail in about 5 years. And many other anecdotal reports indicate similarly bad results. Maybe not as bad as Backblaze but pretty damn bad. I absolutely agree though, the 4TB are a great improvement, you can't beat them for reliability unless you're really willing to pay for it. I've chosen them for my personal NAS and some servers even with great results so far.