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Hard to argue with those WDC/Toshiba numbers. Seagate's are just embarrassing in contrast. (HGST drives -- now WDC -- were great, but those are legacy drives.
by loeg 2y ago
Hard to argue with those WDC/Toshiba numbers. Seagate's are just embarrassing in contrast.
(HGST drives -- now WDC -- were great, but those are legacy drives. It's been part of WD for some time. The new models are WDC branded.)
- RachelF 2y ago...and many used Seagate drives have been resold as new in the last 3 years. They were used for crypto mining and then had their SMART parameters wiped back to "new" 0 hours usage. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Hard-disk-fraud-Increasing-evidence-of-origin-in-China-10269059.html https://www.heise.de/en/news/Hard-disk-fraud-Increasing-evid...
- loeg 2y agoSure, but it's hard to blame that on Seagate. The AFR is their fault.
- michaelt 2y agoIt's not Seagate's fault, but it would behove them to clamp down on such activity by authorised resellers. After all, it's not just the buyer getting ripped off; it's also Seagate. A customer paid for a brand new Seagate drive and Seagate didn't see a penny of it.
- loeg 2y agoYes. Nothing would lead me to believe Seagate isn't fervently working to shut down fraudulent resellers behind the scenes.
- numpad0 2y agoSeagate has always been the "you get what you pay for" && high replacement availability option, at least since the Thai flood and ST3000DM001 days - they kept shipping drives. It was always HGST > Toshiba > Seagate in both price and MTBF, with WD somewhere in between.
- rogerrogerr 2y agoIs crypto mining a high storage IO operation? I always thought it was hard on CPU and RAM, but not on disk IO.
- colonial 2y agoThere are coins like Chia that were built around "wasting disk space" proof-of-work rather than the "wasting {C/GPU|ASIC} cycles" PoW that Bitcoin uses (and Ethereum used to use.)
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- userbinator 2y agoSeagate seems to be very much hit-or-miss.