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Seagate 3TB HDDs has huge Failure rates
Check this report from backup service Backblaze out. They outed a report of their hard drive failure rates, it was done with a very respectable 25,000 hard disk drives. The chart shows a failure rate for all tested HDDs, and check out the SeaGate 3TB .. topping a failure rate of 40%
the Barracuda 7200.14 3TB is failing at incredible rates over at Backblaze's datacenter. This doesn't mean all Seagate HDDs are bad though, the newer Desktop HDD.15 4TB had a failure rate of only 2.5 percent across a sample of 12,000 units. The vast majority of the 3TB Seagate failures are tied to a single model: the Barracuda 7200.14. That drive's annual failure rate jumped from under 10% at the end of 2013 to over 40% a year later. There's no indication of why those 'cudas are failing at a dramatically higher rate, but the sample size is pretty big. Backblaze has over 1,100 examples with an average age of 2.2 years.
Although the 3TB contenders from HGST and WD also suffered higher failure rates over the past year, the overall percentages are much lower—especially for HGST. Drives from that manufacturer, which is owned by Western Digital, continue to be the most reliable in Backblaze's storage pods.
Updated reliability stats on 17 different drives are available in the full report, which is worth reading. Updated with Q3 2015 results:
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#4997066 Posted on: 01/22/2015 11:38 AM
Took liberty and checked one of our stores which has statistics for defects:
ST3000DM001 - 5.4% defect rate.
ST3000VX000 - 5.2% defect rate.
Those are older made from 2011, but one has to have enough samples and enough time to see what's going on.
Took liberty and checked one of our stores which has statistics for defects:
ST3000DM001 - 5.4% defect rate.
ST3000VX000 - 5.2% defect rate.
Those are older made from 2011, but one has to have enough samples and enough time to see what's going on.
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#4997072 Posted on: 01/22/2015 11:53 AM
i have 1 in my media server. however it is backed up onto an identical drive which is left unconnected
i have 1 in my media server. however it is backed up onto an identical drive which is left unconnected
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#4997076 Posted on: 01/22/2015 12:12 PM
This is why I never considered to buy Seagate, I always go with Western one, so far never fails me once even old HDD 5 years passed.
This is why I never considered to buy Seagate, I always go with Western one, so far never fails me once even old HDD 5 years passed.
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#4997077 Posted on: 01/22/2015 12:14 PM
I wouldn't worry about it, these 'failure rates' are based on stress testing that the average home user will never put their hard drives through.
damn I have 2 of those in my Synology NAS. They work quite well for almost 2 years. Hope it will not fail on me... 
I wouldn't worry about it, these 'failure rates' are based on stress testing that the average home user will never put their hard drives through.
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damn I have 2 of those in my Synology NAS. They work quite well for almost 2 years. Hope it will not fail on me...