I’ve been exclusively using Seagate EXOS drives for my Plex server for the last 15 years, and in several other Plex servers that I administer. Never had a single one fail. They’re excellent.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
if you need HDD, i never had a problem with seagate, though it’s been years since i bought one
homes@piefed.world 7 hours ago
Milksteaks@midwest.social 5 hours ago
Had an 18tb Seagate exos shit the bed on my jellyfin server a couple weeks ago. It had about 3 years usage at least
homes@piefed.world 5 hours ago
No fucking way. Do you have any more diagnostic telemetry about that you’d be willing to share?
Milksteaks@midwest.social 5 hours ago
Havent pulled it yet since I’m waiting on a replacement. I’ll update you when I pull it and check it out. I’ve had tons of drives die over the years but this one hits the hardest since prices have skyrocketed. Hopefully the other 5 drives hold the line for longer
Lojcs@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Are they original / how did you buy them / how much did they cost? I tried buying Seagate 3 times the last 4 years and every time it was shoddily repackaged with fake stickers and such
homes@piefed.world 5 hours ago
Honestly? Right off of Amazon. Pricing depends on the capacity, and I’m sure it’s gone up. But the pricing is always been very good, at or just beneath market rates. Seagate has an official Amazon store, so you’ll often see stuff on sale there. Including certified, pre-used drives, although I’ve never taken a plunge on that option.
ryan213@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
I’ve had the opposite experience. I bought two Seagate drives 15-20 years ago and both failed. Lol I’ve been buying WD ever since and I’m still using them today. Please don’t jinx me.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Maybe I got a bad one, but it had a god awful loud noise. Works fine, but I switched back to WD after that
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 7 hours ago
I had. And with Maxtor, and Samsung, Fujitsu, Quantum, IBM, and that company I forgot the name but it is started with H.
WD was nice. Not without problems, but nothing Fujitsu MPG tier.
homes@piefed.world 7 hours ago
Hitachi. Their hard drives were fucking shit.
CHOPSTEEQ@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
I know this is anecdotal but I have a 15 year old hitachi hdd still in use. It’s no longer for anything critical but I’m just morbidly curious how long until it explodes.
remedia@piefed.social 7 hours ago
For a long time I went with IBM, then Hitachi when they bought IBM’s HDD division. Never had a problem with them. Though there was the infamous “Deathstar” and the click of death.
homes@piefed.world 5 hours ago
I remember that. Those deskstar hard drives were pretty big and well priced, but they had a gigantic failure rate right out of the gate. But, by then, both Seagate and Western Digital had serious standing in the hard drive game, and people weren’t going to IBM for hard drives anymore.
But, the “click of death“ didn’t start with those drives, it just happened at such a high rate, that is how most people became familiar with that symptom of hard drive failure.
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 7 hours ago
Yeah, Hitachi.
Matt@lemdro.id 7 hours ago
HGST was created after Hitachi bought IBM’s hard drive business. It was then later bought by Western Digital.
sanzky@beehaw.org 7 hours ago
it would not surprise me if a news breaks out soon that they’ve reached similar deals with the other major brands.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
me neither. if you think you might need more storage over the next 2 years, now’s the time to get it
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
I just picked up 40tb for exactly this reason. I was already considering an upgrade, but was planning like 16 tb. But with this news… Might as well get it while I can at prices I was expecting to pay anyway, even if it’s more than I really had budgeted for it…
(I got refurbished drives, so this wasn’t like several grand or anything, came to $570 on Newegg for surveillance drives)
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
holy shit i thought i was going super prepared with a 24tb