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[–] ernest314@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I think people say this because there was one specific 6TB model that does really poorly in BackBlaze reports, combined with a generally poor understanding of statistics ("I bought a Seagate and it failed but I've never had a WD fail").

I will also point out that BackBlaze themselves consistently say that Seagate and WD are pretty much the same (apart from the one model), in those exact same reports

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Repair technicians see by far the most of seagate drives

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Heh. In my case, one WD SSD failed miserably on me.

Thanks for the explanation.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee -2 points 4 days ago

I've had at least 6 seagate drives over the past 20 years. none of them survived more than 2 or 3 years. Meanwhile, i have two almost 15 year old WDs sitting on my desk still going strong.