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Recently? Are those faulty Seagate drives still being sold in 2017? EDIT: Ah, I see that you meant you're turned off by 3tb Seagates in general. You could just
by gareim 9y ago
Recently? Are those faulty Seagate drives still being sold in 2017?
EDIT: Ah, I see that you meant you're turned off by 3tb Seagates in general. You could just look at the model number.
- wlesieutre 9y agoThe bad model is ST3000DM001, and I believe the 001 at the end is a revision number. The one I was looking at was a higher revision number of the same model, but I didn't see any Backblaze data for it and didn't want to bet my data on Seagate having diagnosed/fixed the problem. Got a decent deal on an HGST a few weeks later,
- netmare 9y agoI recently got the ST3000DM008 model, so time will tell. :) I was aware of Backblaze's previous reports, but I doubt they are valid for consumers. A couple of cheap drives in a tower case with occasional read/writes and hundreds of them tightly packed together working 24/7 are two completely different scenarios. Home users should just backup their important stuff and buy whatever they want. A super reliable drive won't save them from an accidental drop, a fire or theft.
- kalleboo 9y agoIt also depends on where you're keeping your drives. Their drives are in temperature-controlled data centers, mine are in a cheap consumer NAS in a home office that can breach 34°C in summer. I imagine most of their drives don't even see much traffic if they're used for backups. Write once, read rarely. I wonder how B2 changes that equation.