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[–] wicked_observer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (7 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.

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

I have one Seagate drive. It's a 500 GB that came in my 2006 Dell Dimension E510 running XP Media Center. When that died in 2011, I put it in my custom build. It ran until probably 2014, when suddenly I was having issues booting and I got a fresh WD 1 TB. Put it in a box, and kept it for some reason. Fast forward to 2022, I got another Dell E510 with only an 80 GB. Dusted off the old 500 GB and popped it in. Back with XP Media Center. The cycle is complete. That drive is still noisy as fuck.

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[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"The two models, the 30TB ... and the 32TB ..., each offer a minimum of 3TB per disk". Well, yes, I would hope something advertised as being 30TB would offer at least 3TB. Am I misreading this sentence somehow?

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