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nixCraft 🐧😂 seagate developed a bad rep now. on a serious note i use Cryptsetup and LUKS - open-source disk encryption as described here https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/howto-linux-hard-disk-encryption-with-luks-cryptsetup-command/ for my #Linux system 🔥
skribe 🇺🇦 
@nixCraft isn't truecrypt now considered unsafe?
Maxi 12x 💉
Chloe 
@enderpuff OpenOffice is the older, practically abandoned one. The whole dev community centers around LibreOffice far more than a decade now.
@frumble @enderpuff OpenOffice was always glacially slow. Last I checked (admittedly more than a decade ago), they still hadn't fixed the ordinal numbers bug. I think I submitted that bug report around 2002.
Ronny#332@nixCraft seems like the Seagate "memes" are all over the world. We, in Germany, call the drives "Sie-Geht-Oder-Sie-Geht-Nicht" ("Sie Geht" sounds like "SeaGate"). Translated it means She-Works-Or-She-Does-Not-Work.
Chris 📎
spikederailed@nixCraft Two jobs ago working at an MSP my boss chucked a Seagate SMR drive in a raid array to replace a previously failed Seagate drive and didn't understand why it took over a week to resilver.
I'm shocked another drive didn't fail in the resilvering process.
monoxane@nixCraft I once ran a 3 drive raid 5 with 3tb barracudas from the Thailand factory that flooded in 2011 and it was fine for yeeeaaaars until I needed more space and replaced them
Steve F.
Max@nixCraft still have a 1 TB Barracuda from 2013, no backups either... living on the edge 
Kuraiko@nixCraft never had issues with a Seagate drive 
Moppi@nixCraft
seagate was ever terrible
seagate was ever terrible
Infosec V'ger@nixCraft Seagate has a bad rep, but doesn’t Western Digital as well? Whose drives should I be using? Is Toshiba still a thing?
Bob K Mertz 
@andrewdwilliams
Toshiba is actually pretty solid from what I've been seeing. WD and Seagate are, indeed, equally terrible but can be hit or miss. Nothing has ever been as bad as the Seagate 3TB drives though..... I had a customer at the time which used those in a large server farm and they had a 50-60% failure rate in the first month of use.
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Toshiba is actually pretty solid from what I've been seeing. WD and Seagate are, indeed, equally terrible but can be hit or miss. Nothing has ever been as bad as the Seagate 3TB drives though..... I had a customer at the time which used those in a large server farm and they had a 50-60% failure rate in the first month of use.
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OldGuySelfHosting@nixCraft Luks easily rooles. Good call.
sortius@nixCraft so sad to see.
I remember the days where Seagate was the bomb, WD was hit & miss, and Hitachi was "I don't care about my data"
Owen Tyme@nixCraft I don't like Seagate, but that's all based on personal experience. Both Seagate hard drives I owned died within six months to a year of purchase.
Maxxstor was even worse. Weeks. Eww.
I tried Western Digital and never looked back, because they do what they say on the tin, which is all I ask for. I've only seen two WD drives go bad. One of those failed a SMART test the day I got it home. Took it back, got a replacement. It happens, fair enough. The other lived 8 years, first.