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OT – Hard drive failure rates.
Backblaze is an on-linebackup service. This is a blog about the drives they use for storage and their respective failure rates. If you want the summary – don’t buy Seagate Barracuda 3TB drives.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/
Herb Sevush
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Seagate was my first drive failure, years ago in an iMac. Have been Seagate-averse since … But they keep buying companies, like LaCie, making the question of all manufacturers: what’s in the box? Hitachi? Western? IBM?
Doug D
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[Douglas K. Dempsey] “Seagate was my first drive failure, years ago in an iMac. Have been Seagate-averse since”
Over the last 20 years Seagate has been very up and down. There have been long stretches when I thought they were the best, and recently longer stretches where they have been very problematic. In the last few years Hitachi has had the best reputation and I found it interesting that Backblaze’s findings confirmed that notion. Also interesting is that in general the 4tb drives seem to be more stable than the 3 TB drives industry wide.
Herb Sevush
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Right, my understanding has been Hitachi is currently best. Even so, I was using G-Tech drives, who were bought by Hitachi, and then the whole operation apparently was bought by Western Digital … and the G-Drives were using Hitachi hardware. And I STILL got reports, from people like Philip Hodgetts, that cautioned against G-Tech and recommended Cal Digit. Do you know what manufacturer Cal Digit uses? Maybe it is really just “drive roulette” regardless of spinning hardware.
Doug D
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Sadly, I learned that before you posted this.
Tim
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[Douglas K. Dempsey] ” Do you know what manufacturer Cal Digit uses? Maybe it is really just “drive roulette” regardless of spinning hardware.”
The enclosure can also be the culprit for an external unit failing. I remember reading that many times when a LaCie drive died back in the day it was actually the electronics in the enclosure (or the power supply) that failed, not the drive itself.
A couple years ago I had a very bad run with G-Tech drives as well. I’d say 25% of our external drives failed and it was a variety of units so it wasn’t like we got a bad batch.
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[Andrew Kimery] “LaCie drive died back in the day it was actually the electronics in the enclosure (or the power supply) that failed, not the drive itself.”
Yep. I was a victim.
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[Richard Herd] “Yep. I was a victim.”
Me too. Three times. I’ll never buy LaCie again for that reason.
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I had a LaCie bite the dust on me, so no go for now. I have good luck with G Technology thus far. A bit noisy but reliable.
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The great tech guys at Softraid said they also confirm that the 3 TB Seagate Barracuda drives are not to be trusted. However the 1TB Barrracuda is one of their favorites. They rated the Seagate Constallation at the very top of the list and they are the only drives we use in our MacPro Raids…four 2 TB Constellation drives striped together.
Very fast.
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As a somewaht sane person I use enterprise class drives. I have 10 3TB Seagate Constellation ES drives in a Raid 6. So far not a burp from the Areca controller.
David
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