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Agreed. I built a synology with 5x Seagate and all failed within 18 months with light workload. I will never buy another Seagate. Replaced with mix of HGST an
by tfigment 7y ago
Agreed. I built a synology with 5x Seagate and all failed within 18 months with light workload. I will never buy another Seagate. Replaced with mix of HGST and Toshiba which are working for several years with no bad sectors. Now will buy Toshiba only until they go down the low quality road.
- jsjohnst 7y agoBuying the same brand / model drives is not a wise idea, especially if all are bought at once. Any manufacturing defects will be amplified and could cause a RAID array failure due to losing multiple drives in proximity to each other.
- tfigment 7y agoYou are not wrong and I knew better but I was build for first time and bought all at same time. Now it's a mix of HGST, WD, Toshiba. Some are 34000h, with no issues. The WD is slower when data scrubbing but I don't trust WD for many years and that one was because other vendors were out of that size. I don't really know who to trust in that space any more so it's Toshiba for me on any new replacements.