Check your grammar Hilbert "Other then that" Sorry to correct you but it's "other THAN that" "then" denotes a time or sequence of events. e.g I went to the shops THEN i went home. "THAN" denotes a difference e.g I am taller THAN you. It will make your articles a lot more professional looking if you don't make these simple grammatical errors. Cue the grammar nazi hate HDDs will be around for a long time yet. SSDs are still to expensive and too small and the gains don't really outweigh that extra cost. At least for those of us not rolling in dosh

The person who drafted the letter was not competent enough to notice this is 2017.

maybe the notice was issued 1 year earlier? just like my sis-in-law working in seagate malaysia, got her vss notice last year which will end her service middle of this year

I don keep much data besides games, couple movies, and have yet to find my music as flac/uncompressed so i dont care about bigger. Why would i drive a schoolbus, when i can have a porsche. Main reason for me was silence, but i do like the 2-3 times in bandwidth i get, plus i dont have to worry about headcrahses etc. So far, i had to replace about 10 hdds in the past 15y (my rig/family etc), but yet to see one of the ssds failing (+30 in past 10y). Almost all ssd failure is caused by age, not write cycles. and risk jumps to about 25% after reaching around 3y on the chip. As the saying goes, any data not backed up, wasn't important. Even with hdds, i always had 2 backup drives. One inside the rig, and another one (different model) that gets updated every couple of weeks and stays in a water/fire safe. So even if one of my ssds will fail (so far better rate than hdds), i still have another one, and os is imaged anyway. Do like to see prices come down a bit on good performing solids with +600gb capacity, as i need a bigger one to replace my game (data) drive (siege alone is +70gb), i try to avoid having to buy an in between drive...

What you say about WD is matter of opinion. I had every single WD purchased in last 8 years failed because of bad sectors, especially green line is big poo. I had few desktop Seagate fail too, but at least 99.5% of data recoverable compared to less than 85% on WD. One of reasons I started to use enterprise disks as they tend to last much longer and offer 5years warranty instead of just 2 and as well get much higher read/write performance.

What you state is actually the matter of opinion. Why do people not understand this? It's about total success rates when it comes to anything dying. Seagate has the worst reliability (though currently they are much better then they were a few years ago BY FAR). But what does that mean? Does that mean if you buy 10 seagate drives, 6 of them will fail? no, all 10 could survive 100%. Does that mean if you buy 10 western digital hard drives all of them will survive? no, all 10 could 100% die. But your one statistic does not change the facts about failrates between companies, it just means you were either lucky, or unlucky. Me? I'm extremely LUCKY. I have never had ONE HDD fail on me, across multiple computers and laptops. I have had Maxtor, seagate, Samsung, HGST, WD, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Hitachi, LaCie, IBM and HP hard drives, and i have never had one fail.

Seagate has improved, but were pretty bad a few years ago.They were even faced with a class action suit for the very high failure rates of the 3tb units. http://www.pcworld.com/article/3028981/storage/seagate-slapped-with-a-class-action-lawsuit-over-hard-drive-failure-rates.html

Some LONG time ago i bought only Seagate drives, but in the 40GB era they had realy bad batch or something, because one died on my home PC, well it only got realy sloooow, so even pulling out the data was painfull. But even in work, the "bullet proof and overal magnificent" Mac G3s (or 4) were hit by it, and lot of lazy colegues that don't backed up their work were pissed of. From then i bought only WD, an no one has died on me. I had couple of Caviars, Blues, one Green, Raptor, Velociraptor and now Black. Blacks have 5 year warranty.

I don keep much data besides games, couple movies, and have yet to find my music as flac/uncompressed so i dont care about bigger. Why would i drive a schoolbus, when i can have a porsche. Main reason for me was silence, but i do like the 2-3 times in bandwidth i get, plus i dont have to worry about headcrahses etc. So far, i had to replace about 10 hdds in the past 15y (my rig/family etc), but yet to see one of the ssds failing (+30 in past 10y). Almost all ssd failure is caused by age, not write cycles. and risk jumps to about 25% after reaching around 3y on the chip. As the saying goes, any data not backed up, wasn't important. Even with hdds, i always had 2 backup drives. One inside the rig, and another one (different model) that gets updated every couple of weeks and stays in a water/fire safe. So even if one of my ssds will fail (so far better rate than hdds), i still have another one, and os is imaged anyway. Do like to see prices come down a bit on good performing solids with +600gb capacity, as i need a bigger one to replace my game (data) drive (siege alone is +70gb), i try to avoid having to buy an in between drive...

if SSD failure rise 25% after 3year then its almost no different to hdd, as most hdd also should pass 3year mark in my experience, most hdd failure, either DOA or mechanical/hardware failure most wear and tear (like bad sector) will give you sign before the hdd completely dead, and it can keep running for months before giving up even you said that write cycles not really have effect but also we need to take note that in 10years of SSD, it is quite changed SLC to MMC, also the controller & NAND been changing alot durability wise not sure if it more durable or not But if we looking at electronics goods, usually first/early release have much better quality like we can still hearing that someone have 80mb corner hdd working well in the end for consumer, i think all depends on price point ... if SSD will keeping price down to HDD level, then it will completely replace hdd eventually even say for SSD in case of failure we basically cant recover data and suchs, but as its become cheap, then easy for consumer to buy extra sdd for backup either

It's really the jump from MLC to TLC that made most affordable SSDs not worth it.