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[–] 17 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I've got 2:

Playing phasmophobia. The ghosts hands reach around my screen signifying I'm about to die. As my head is snapped back the power shuts off and everything goes black. And thunder clapped outside. Properly scared the shit out of me.

Another time, power went out and fried my Seagate hard drive mid write. No clue what was happening but pre power outage it worked. Post it did not. Now I'm scared to buy more Seagate drives.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

    I've never had good luck with Seagate drives. They die much sooner than my favored brand, Western Digital Black. I have WD drives that are 14 years old that still run.

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  • [–] 6 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

    For every anecdote like this, there's another with different/reversed brands.

    Aside from some particularly bad runs (like the IBM "Deathstar" or WD Greens), no brand is much more reliable than another.

    There is, however, a big difference when you get to Enterprise drives. Often SAS but not always. They are a lot more expensive, but with much higher MTBF ratings. But even within this, the brands are pretty close.

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  • [–] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    Wait, I'm using WD Green SSD's in half my stuff. Am I safe?!

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  • [–] 3 points 14 hours ago

    The answer is always "no", regardless of what you have. Follow the 3-2-1 backup rule for anything important.

    As for whether you're sitting on a ticking time bomb, I'm referring to a run of mechanical (IIRC) 1TB drives from around 2010 or so. Quick googling suggests Green SSDs have a slightly higher than average failure rate, but only slightly.

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