Seagate Purpose-Built 4TB Video HDD
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r3claim3r
After reading user reviews of Seagates larger hard drives (i.e. high failure rates) I would not be putting my money down their products. Seagate used to be a reputable brand. Not so much anymore.
TheGuuH
What? I'm still running 2 barrucudas @250gb in raid 0....
stop reading and start buying and 'checking' buy yourself :banana:
mmicrosysm
My Seagate 3TB is working fine in my system that runs 24/7. Entering year #3!
I might have to take a look at this drive for my video streaming server.
Neo Cyrus
I don't know what the averages are but I've been using Seagate almost exclusively since around... 2005? I don't even remember.
I'm currently using:
- 2x 640GB Barracuda 7200.11
- 1x 1TB Barracuda 7200.12
- 2x 2TB Barracuda Greens
- 1x 2.5" 500GB Momentus Gforce
Some of those are older than Dinosaurs and were powered on 24/7 for a long time, no sleep/powered down mode.
The only reason I haven't bought some 4TB drives is due to the artificial price inflation. I bought the last of those 2TB drives for $70 during what feels like over 2 years ago. When was the release date for the Barracuda Green? Recently I saw one for sale at $80, ridiculous considering how long it's been. 4TB drives should cost that much now.
BLEH!
I think it comes down to personal experience. The only drives I've ever had die on me have been Seagates, nothing else, therefore I'll never use them again.
deltatux
The only manufacturer that I had failures with were Seagate, the manufacturer I had to process RMAs for when I was working at a computer store were Seagates as well.
deltatux
Neo Cyrus
The only manufacturer which I had any failures with was Western Digital... save for bad batches (some Seagate 7200.11s), the failure rates should be really low. Luckily for me the 7200.11s I have were not from the bad batches.
I'm not saying their failure rates are good or that their quality hasn't dropped. All I'm saying is that the failure rates overall are low enough that anything we encounter is just really bad luck. Don't let it affect your purchases too much.
deltatux
I do have Seagate drives but I don't put any sensitive data on there, I just have a redundant of other drives (from Hitachi (pre-Toshiba) to Western Digital)
deltatux
chilly willy
only drives i don't give a chance are Hitachi. although i will say i have had a good experience with seagate drives over the years. not so much with western digital. over literally hundreds of drives for myself, friends, local businesses, my business, etc i have had WAY more western digital drives fail than seagate drives. and seagate is cheaper. usually. i will be fair though and say most of the western digital drives were external and just the enclosure failed to work. when i took the drives out they still worked using sata connections(but then died later on). but still 100s of seagate drives and less than a handful of them bombed and they lasted for over a decade each 24/7 usage.
Elder III
The only hard drives I have had fail or go flaky within their typical life expectancy, have been Seagate, Maxtor and Fujitsu. Now I have had bad WDs, but they have been ~10 years old or more, so I don't really count those myself.
Corrupt^
Weird thing I've noticed:
I've had way more HDD's fail of people I know and in our store from pre-built PC's then those that were ordered seperately (like us enthousiasts do), even if they were the same type.
This goes for pretty much every brand.
Do pre-built PC's get worser batches or something ;s
Neo Cyrus
Thank you for that info, good to know.
Loophole35
May have to do with the handling in the factory and shipping.
chilly willy
prebuilts usually have crappy airflow too. heat never helps anything in a computer. also maybe manufacturer bloatware introduces excess I/O operations causing drives to fail faster? some of the bloatware I have seen is really disgusting first thing I do when someone asks me to checkout their computer is get rid of all that crap. excessive virus scanning doesn't help either.
Neo Cyrus
Pre-built PCs often use (used?) crappy OEM HDDs that aren't sold separately which are of considerably lower quality than the main lines. That and as mentioned the heat could be significant, without proper cooling my HDDs just keep building up heat well into the 60s, with a fan in front of them they remain 20-30C at all times.
kosh_neranek
When it comes to HDD it's all about luck. Used WD at the beginning and then had 2 failures in a month and told myself that will never get another one. Since I started using Seagate and so far so good.
Old system (still running 5years + )
- 2x 250GB Barracuda 7200.11 in RAID 0
- 1x 500GB Barracuda 7200.11
Actual system
- 2x 2TB Barracuda Greens in RAID 1
- 1x 2TB Barracuda Green + SSD (ASUS caching)
Mufflore
My thought too.
Is that why yours is Chilly?
I've lost one Samsung in the last 3 years.
Still got old 1TB Samsung (5yr old) and Hitachi (3.5yr old) drives in use, been running 24/7 for a long time, both with over 30K hours each on the clock.
mmicrosysm
I think I jinxed myself... now my primary 2TB Seagate hdd is reporting "reallocated sector count" SMART Error
All is good new drive is on its way and this one will be RMA'd. No data lose 😀
yasamoka
It's weird how variable HDD experiences are between people.
Mufflore
Yeah, its hard to spot some patterns.
Although IBM did one on everyone years back with their maximally expanding glass platters lol.
Caused them to sell off the division to Hitachi, which made me wary of Hitachi for a while.
