Seagate launches 8TB Archive HDD at 250 EURO
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Glottiz
i'm a bit confused about this product. can i use it in my desktop PC for archiving purposes or not? seagate website says that this drive is designed for cloud storage and usage like that. it's no good for home user?
vbetts
Moderator
Technically yes you can, but the RPM's top off at 5900. It's great for storage, just make sure your OS is on a faster HD or SSD.
laststop
Great for storage is not a sentence I would ever say when talking about seagate. I have had triple the amount of seagates fail on me versus ANY other hard drive manufacturer. Out of the current brands hitachi is the most reliable in my experience followed by western digital then toshiba and seagate bringing up the rear as the number 1 most defective hard drive producer on earth.
Congrats if you never had a seagate fail on you, you got really lucky.
---TK---
Very bad experiences with seagate, I will pass tyvm.
rl66
yes you can but it will bring you back few year ago... when you turn the computer on and then go to take a coffee.
in RAID mode with a good controler (no not with chipset integrated one lol) or in a Nas this problem is totaly acceptable => this is why it is purposed for storage, cloud or Nas.
BTW it is very friendly to have a Nas at home if you have many computer / os
rl66
me too but they have evolved a lot. at 1st i don't want any of them but disponibility of WD were bad at this period so i had get some in my Nas and very happy of it since.
Corrupt^
No issues with them here. Same as far as WD goes, no issues with their better drives (blacks for instance. Blues & Greens are meh).
Darkest
Seagate has gained a bad name due to a specific line of drives, most of their hardware is fantastic. Give it a few years and it'll pass over, the same thing has happened to every major HDD manufacturer over the years at some point.
laststop
I've had problems with seagate on multiple different hard drive lines. I'm upgrading to HGST helium filled 6tb drives. I prefer to spend more money and have rock solid reliable drives that end up never going bad over the incredible headaches of shotty made drives. WD greens served me well in the nas but 4x 6TB HE6's would triple my space.
Darkest
I can't speak for your specific issues, but most of Seagates problems stemmed from certain multi-platter drives. Their other gear was very high quality, as many others can testify. As I said, it depends on what you've bought really.
That said, if I was buying a HDD now it'd be a Toshiba.
---TK---
Got a Seagate 1.5tb in this rig at 65% health that is a certified repaired rma. Less than 600 days of use. My kids rig has another certified repaired 1.5tb. I have a 2tb certified repaired in a box when this drive dies. Lost a 1.5tb external too. They sent me a 2tb external as replacement. Got to give them credit, their rma process is good. I got WD from years ago still at 100% health so I am going to stick with WD for hard drives.
rflair
Moderator
The 1.5 TB Seagate was their bad product and many people will never let them live it down, I have one also, couple of sector errors on it. I do have another two 3 TB Seagate that are going strong. Have a bunch of WD drives 3 TB Red series, great drives also, but the 2 TB were plagued with problems.
It happens to all of them.
MasterBash
So far I love my 4TB Seagate drive. Although its 5900rpm, its just a little slower than a WD Black, but much much cheaper.
I used to have problems with Maxtor... but that was many years ago. So far my seagate has been reliable.
laststop
Hitachi is the only company where I've never had a single hard drive failure in my entire 20+ years of using pc's. Yes I know WD bought hitachi HGST but I still have 100% faith in them. Plus as a bonus the helium filled drives are the quietest drives you can get nowadays. Currently have a 6TB 4 drive RAID 5 setup (4x 2TB drives) so with 18TB with the helium drives I'll finally be able to put my entire movie collection stored as blu ray disc images with all the menus and extra features intact instead of using x264 mkv files that are only the movie and more compressed video quality.
eddieobscurant
well you probably haven't used a hitachi deathstar
---TK---
dunno their failure rate is pretty high compared to the competition.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/
MasterBash
I think its been said many times that the results on that site are invalid. So many variables and their way of testing those drives is stupid.
mackintosh
I took a punt on Segate drives three times over the years. All failed. I will never touch a Segate drive, even if they gave them away for free.
Corrupt^
I have 2 of their 1.5TB HDD's which have been working fine for over 2 years (SMART, DST, short, long, ... all still check out).
Though they are from newer 1.5 TB batches.
---TK---
I would take some if free but my data would have to be backed up by WD drives though. The only Seagate that has not died on my is my 4tb usb3 external that I had to buy locally when my seagate external started clicking. It lived long enough to back up everything to the new drive. I got a 2tb seagate external rma drive sitting in a box unused and a 2tb barracuda rma drive waiting to be put in when my 1.5tb certified rapaired finally goes it is at 65% health with just 538 days online with limited use.
