Seagate 3TB HDDs has huge Failure rates

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#4997049
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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...:bang:
#4997066
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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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i have 1 in my media server. however it is backed up onto an identical drive which is left unconnected
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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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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...:bang:
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.
#4997092
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Why People still buy seasuck after a long history of screwing the customer, I don't understand.
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Interesting- I have a Seagate 3TB drive for over 2 years now (or was it more i can't remember when i got it) and never had a problem with it. However a WD 2TB drive did fail on me after a year so yeah, who's paying for this analysis? 😉
Beats me, I have WD 80GB black PATA from 2003, and its still kicking.
#4997097
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Rates aren't that super bad, still there is reason why I have only WD HDDs.
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As far as I remember I've only ever had 1 hdd fail on me & it was many years ago, I still have hdd's from 20 years ago WD's, WD Raptors, Seagates, old scsi drives ,even old 500MB & 1GB drives that still work, I was looking through them a couple of weeks ago lol how did we ever manage with those monsters. I do have a 3TB Seagate I bought for storage a year ago when I built my current rig & hope it doesn't fail would be a nightmare !.
#4997145
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SSD's are the future. Forget those clunky dying 3TB HDDs :P
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I ordered one of those drive last year and it was dead. Returned it and it was still dead, it wouldn't even spin. I will stick with WD from now on, has I didn't have a bad experience with them yet.
#4997184
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Every WD drive I have ever bought since 2001 is still working which is why I won't ever buy another brand of HDD.
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My 3TB seagate died after 6 months. I don't know what brand is best.
#4997295
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My 3TB seagate died after 6 months. I don't know what brand is best.
Now Samsung is gone out of the Mechanical Drive market, i suggest Western Digital.
#4997339
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Now Samsung is gone out of the Mechanical Drive market, i suggest Western Digital.
Still some Samsung drives out there (some are Seagate branded but actually built by Samsung). But yes... best option for hard drives nowadays is WD by far.
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Every Seagate I have ever owned has failed on me. Its been three years since my last Seagate and I will never use another.
#4997376
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Go Hitachi go (now HGST).
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SSD's are the future. Forget those clunky dying 3TB HDDs :P
Not until a 6TB SSD costs the same as 6TB HDD and NAND wear is eliminated they won't be!
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My reaction to reading this news is like.... *sarcastic voice* Didn't expect that *laughs*
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Every Seagate I have ever owned has failed on me. Its been three years since my last Seagate and I will never use another.
The majority one seagates I have have all failed me. I quit buying them after 2010. I have a 8 year old WD raptor 80gb that is still going strong in my server. I miss Samsung drives. Never had an issue with Samsung, Western Digital or the Hitachi drives Ive used.

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