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It's funny you say that. I always thought WD were the more reliable brand, and Seagate were trash. I wonder if it's just a case of each of us having one HDD o

• tharkun__ 3y ago
  Pronounce this in German: "Sea gate oder sea gate nicht" ("Sie geht oder Sie geht nicht"). Meaning "she works or she does not work" is a German word play on early failure rates for Seagate drives. Coined when there was a time where if you didn't have Seagate drives in a RAID you were more likely to loose your data than not ;) And yeah I started buying WD at that point. Backblaze stats weren't a thing back then tho.
• themagician 3y ago
  > I wonder if it's just a case of each of us having one HDD of a particular brand fail on us violently, and then finding others who were in the same boat. That is absolutely the case and anyone with enough experience could confirm it. Both WD and Seagate have made some real trash drives, and both made at least one or two models that were trash at scale. If you timed it just right you could jump from one to another and experience massive failures with both! You also probably have a drive from each that's been running for 20 years somehow.
  • EricE 3y ago
    Almost makes me pine for good 'ol Miniscribe ;)