@schizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 month agoGerman Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hourswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1148arrow-down12cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-square@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish10•1 month agoI don’t think I’ve ever owned a Seagate drive in the last 20 or so years. Every time I’ve been shopping for a spinning disk, there has been some ongoing controversy surrounding Seagate in one form or another that turned me off buying one.
minus-square@deranger@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink19•1 month agoWhen I was putting together my NAS, WD was selling their NAS grade drives without disclosing they were SMR. They got hit with a class action for this. They’re all trying shady shit, no HDD will run forever, no corporation cares about you, so use whatever you want and backup your data. I have 114TB of Seagate drives right now and they’re fine. I’d use WD too, or HGST. The fanboyism around HDDs is so strange to me.
minus-square@kalpol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•1 month agoYep I have a Seagate array and a HGST array and a WD array, and they’ve got 50k hours and are all fine (he said knocking on wood)
I don’t think I’ve ever owned a Seagate drive in the last 20 or so years. Every time I’ve been shopping for a spinning disk, there has been some ongoing controversy surrounding Seagate in one form or another that turned me off buying one.
When I was putting together my NAS, WD was selling their NAS grade drives without disclosing they were SMR. They got hit with a class action for this.
They’re all trying shady shit, no HDD will run forever, no corporation cares about you, so use whatever you want and backup your data.
I have 114TB of Seagate drives right now and they’re fine. I’d use WD too, or HGST. The fanboyism around HDDs is so strange to me.
Yep I have a Seagate array and a HGST array and a WD array, and they’ve got 50k hours and are all fine (he said knocking on wood)