I won't buy Seagate hard drives unless I really can't avoid it. I missed this 3GB drive, but a while back I bought a Seagate 8TB SMR drive (ST8000AS0002) to sto

I won't buy Seagate hard drives unless I really can't avoid it. I missed this 3GB drive, but a while back I bought a Seagate 8TB SMR drive (ST8000AS0002) to store my backups on. It failed within months, so I got it replaced on warranty. The replacement failed within months, and I gave up on it. I was storing large files on it (just what it was designed for), each one with a par2 error correction file. Every now and again I would run the error correction, and it would usually find a few sectors that just returned the wrong data.