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Seagate hard drives exhibit surprisingly high failures rates

 
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:34 am    Post subject: Seagate hard drives exhibit surprisingly high failures rates Reply with quote
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Backblaze, the makers of a cloud-based online backup service, has released the results of a hard drive reliability test for three leading manufacturers. The findings indicate two winners and one clear loser. In terms of annual failure rates, Seagate led the way with, on average, almost 14% of their 1.5 terabyte drives failing...read more
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 7:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh crap, most of my HDDs are Seagate ones!

Thankfully they are 3TB models and so far none has broken.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
psolord wrote:
Oh crap, most of my HDDs are Seagate ones!

Thankfully they are 3TB models and so far none has broken.


Well. I can confirm that.

Overall, WD is much more reliable than Seagate. My experience the past +20 years.
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