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Past performance does not indicate future return, but so far I'm seeing no reason not to distrust Toshiba hard drives at the very least given the Backblaze stat
by devonkim 6y ago
Past performance does not indicate future return, but so far I'm seeing no reason not to distrust Toshiba hard drives at the very least given the Backblaze stats. I've bought 8 Toshiba drives with zero problems over several years on aggressively used drives but I've had several failures across drive families over the past 10 years with Western Digital drives of different batches and lines.
One of the dangers of blending drives is that there are sometimes drive geometry incompatibilities that can screw up RAID. Saw someone show they had drives that are a few cylinders off and can't replace drives now with certain replacements.
- JadeNB 6y ago> Past performance does not indicate future return, but so far I'm seeing no reason not to distrust Toshiba hard drives at the very least given the Backblaze stats. I've bought 8 Toshiba drives with zero problems over several years on aggressively used drives but I've had several failures across drive families over the past 10 years with Western Digital drives of different batches and lines. Are there too many negatives there? It seems that you first say that you distrust ("no reason not to distrust") Toshiba drives, but then you say that your experience with them has involved no problems.
- devonkim 6y agoShould probably drop the dis- , thanks. Too many conditions in a row too fast is how I get bugs in my code just like in my written sentences :P