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Years ago, a Seagate HD suddenly crashed. Wasn't particularly old. Then some point later, there was a good deal on Seagate HDs, and I bought another one. Also

Years ago, a Seagate HD suddenly crashed. Wasn't particularly old. Then some point later, there was a good deal on Seagate HDs, and I bought another one. Also crashed "early" in its life. I never buy them again. The main PC building forum I used to frequent also have a pinned topic announcing that they've lost all hope with Seagate and will never recommend it for anyone asking for help on a build. That was 10 years ago, and last I checked they still stuck to that policy. Don't buy Seagate.

WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
I was a system builder from 1990 onward. Seagate's 10. and 11. lines were notorious for going bad. I have stacks of bad Seagate drives from those days (2010s, iirc). For 3.5 inch form factor models, Seagate drives were dying at a rate of 10x all other brands combined. The earliest HDD scandal I recall was when Seagate bough Conner, just as Conner's run of leaky-seals started eating platters. Seagate refused to honor those warranties for years. Something eventually changed. IDK what, I always assumed a court was involved. For non-Seagate drives: I did have a bunch of 500GB WD Blue SSDs die a couple of years back. I replaced some under warranty; I later found a firmware update restored the rest of them.
beAbU 2y ago
One of their drives was famously so unreliable that it has its own wikipedia page [1]. Guess who had two of these fail almost at the same time in his NAS a couple of years back. 1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001
- xen2xen1 2y ago
  Had 4 of the 5000 version of the models. Quickly moved to other drives. Got lucky.
markus_zhang 2y ago
Thanks. What do you buy nowadays? I mostly use them to backup family photos and videos. Frequent ingestion but few actual reads. And I hope they can last at least 10 years so I'll rotate another in 5-8 years.

WarOnPrivacy 2y ago

I was a system builder from 1990 onward. Seagate's 10. and 11. lines were notorious for going bad. I have stacks of bad Seagate drives from those days (2010s, iirc). For 3.5 inch form factor models, Seagate drives were dying at a rate of 10x all other brands combined. The earliest HDD scandal I recall was when Seagate bough Conner, just as Conner's run of leaky-seals started eating platters. Seagate refused to honor those warranties for years. Something eventually changed. IDK what, I always assumed a court was involved. For non-Seagate drives: I did have a bunch of 500GB WD Blue SSDs die a couple of years back. I replaced some under warranty; I later found a firmware update restored the rest of them.

beAbU 2y ago

One of their drives was famously so unreliable that it has its own wikipedia page [1]. Guess who had two of these fail almost at the same time in his NAS a couple of years back. 1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001

xen2xen1 2y ago
Had 4 of the 5000 version of the models. Quickly moved to other drives. Got lucky.

markus_zhang 2y ago

Thanks. What do you buy nowadays? I mostly use them to backup family photos and videos. Frequent ingestion but few actual reads. And I hope they can last at least 10 years so I'll rotate another in 5-8 years.