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metadat • today at 5:06 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

Seagate continues the tradition of having the highest failure rates of any manufacturer, on average.

Why is that?

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WarOnPrivacy • today at 5:55 AM

I have two particularly notorious Seagate periods:

    Seagate bought Conner when Conner had released several models w/ 
    leaky seals. Bad sectors started at the outer edge of the 
    platters and grew inward. We had a lot of these drives
    out there and Seagate refused to honor Conner's drive
    warranties. 

    The 7200.10 series had super high failure rates. I wound up 
    replacing every one in my care, within 2 years. The 7200.11
    drives weren't much better.
I think the last Seagate lines I truly trusted were the ST series of MFM and RLL drives.
lycan1917 • today at 5:53 AM

As explained at https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-..., a large proportion of Backblaze's Seagate inventory are rather old drives for a datacenter (now 5-9 years in service), so a high failure rate is expected.

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gethly • today at 7:24 AM

"back in my day", seagate was "the shit". only much later, hitachi drives came to be popular and wd, sort of.