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As usual, HGST and WDC are great. Seagate - to be avoided.
by bufferoverflow 5y ago
As usual, HGST and WDC are great.
Seagate - to be avoided.
- dragontamer 5y ago1% annual failure rates don't seem that bad to me. Historically, drive failures were closer to 5%. The 14TB Seagates with 5% failure are explained as follows: > The 14TB Seagate (ST14000NM0138) drives have an AFR of 5.55% for Q2 2021. These Seagate drives along with 14TB Toshiba drives (MG07ACA14TEY) were installed in Dell storage servers deployed in our U.S. West region about six months ago. We are actively working with Dell to determine the root cause of this elevated failure rate and expect to follow up on this topic in the next quarterly drive stats report. It seems like a "Bathtub curve" issue. The Seagates have very low months of use, but have failed at high numbers. It could be that Dell messed up the quality control. Or maybe it is Seagate.
- citrin_ru 5y agoIt is known that HDD are negatively affected by vibration, so one of possible causes is that used for Seagate chassis are bad at dumping vibration from HDDs or chassis fans cause a vibration.
- arpa 5y agoWDC is not that great, they lied on SMART data about RPMs, and you had to do audio test to determine drive speed. SMR fiasco is also fresh.