Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives

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Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives - Lemmy.World

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Have Seagate sorted their shit out? I have never had any other manufactures drives fail so often in the last 25 or so years. I have them a fresh chance about 10 years ago in a PS4 and guess what? It failed.

This just sounds like 44Tb of fucking about restoring data to me.

Stop buying consumer tier Barracudas. Their enterprise stuff is actually good.

If they’re willing to sell unreliable trash to consumers, why should we trust them at all?

Having had several of their drives fail and then received multiple, non-functional drives for a warranty replacement, I will not trust them again.

The datasheets are public. WD and Toshiba has their own consumer hard drives. Check the Mean Time Between Failures, Read Errors per Bits Read, and Power On Hours per Year rows for them. The consumer ones usually have at most half of the values compared to the enterprise counterparts.
I have had many, many drives over the years. Seagate took a huge dive in both quality and support over a decade ago. I searched my email to find
Interesting that you downvote me for having a different experience than you. Are you a paid fan boy or do you do it for free?