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Wow, what's the deal with Seagate's 4TB drives failing so often?
by fenwick67 9y ago
Wow, what's the deal with Seagate's 4TB drives failing so often?
- userbinator 9y agoSeagate's recent history shows they haven't been great at producing reliable drives: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/All-thru-Q4-2016-Failure-Rates.jpg https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Al... Notice the rows where the number of failures is higher than the number of drives. That means the replacements failed too. Edit: the 3TB Seagate is apparently infamous enough to have its own Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001 Only the "large" Seagates (6TB and above) seem to be doing OK.