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Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity) (www.guru3d.com)

submitted 1 week ago by TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] dragonlobster@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

These things are unreliable, I had 3 seagate HDDs in a row fail on me. Never had an issue with SSDs and never looked back.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seagate in general are unreliable in my own anecdotal experience. Every Seagate I've owned has died in less than five years. I couldn't give you an estimate on the average failure age of my WD drives because it never happened before they were retired due to obsolescence. It was over a decade regularly though.

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[–] wicked_observer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Haven’t bought Seagate in 15 years. They improve their longevity?

[–] Steak@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not worth the risk for me to find out lol. My granddaddy stored his data on WD drives and his daddy before him, and my daddy after him. Now I store my data on WD drives and my son will to one day. Such is life.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And here I am with HGST drives hitting 50k hours

Edit: no one ever discusses the Backblaze reliability statistics. Its interesting to see how they stack up against the anecdotes.

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[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

whoa

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Dude

[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

That's good, really good news, to see that HDDs are still being manufactured and being thought of. Because I'm having a serious problem trying to find a new 2.5" HDD for my old laptop here in Brazil. I can quickly find SSDs across the Brazilian online marketplaces, and they're not much expensive, but I'm intending on purchasing a mechanical one because SSDs won't hold data for much longer compared to HDDs, but there are so few HDD for sale, and those I could find aren't brand-new.

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