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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

I know people love to dunk on Seagate drives, but it was really just the one gen that was the cause of that bad rep. Before that the most hated drives were the "deathstars" (Deskstars). I have a 1TB Seagate drive that is 10 years old and still in use daily. Just do some research on which drive to buy, no OEM is sacrosanct. I'd personally wait 6 months to a year before buying one of these drives though, so enough people have time to find out if this generation is trouble or not.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

There are loads of people who think a company is bad because of one product, one service etc. A friend of mine hates Seagate, but he bought 10 drives of the same model. Pretty sure he even bought some after the first one failed ... or people (like me) put desktop drives in a NAS or service with other drives. While mine are still good I expect them to fail any time since well they are not desinged for the use case I am using them for.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Many people can't accept that one drive model isn't going to kill a company or make everything from them bad.

The exception being the palladium drive. Although its not directly attributed to the fall of JTS, who at the time owned Atari. Its was clear from the frontline techs these things were absolute shit. The irony is that 1 out of say 10,000 was perfect. So much so I still have one of the 1.2 gig's that still spins up and reads and writes fine. Its nearly a unicorn though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok5JTwpv5go

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i dunno man, i have about 20 years worth of bad experiences with seagate. none of their drives have ever been reliable for me. WD drives have always been rock solid and overall just better drives in my experience. I have two WD externals sitting on my desk right now that are almost 15 years old. Still going strong.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Seagate have never once secretly changed the underlying disk technology on a NAS grade drive to one utterly unsuited for use in a NAS drive and then sold it as a NAS grade drive at a premium price because it's a NAS grade drive. So there's that.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I have killed every single type of magnetic platter drive from every brand they are all bad

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Not "bad", consumable.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

The only drives I have ever had die on me were actually both WD, but it's all anecdotal, and I've had tons of WD drives that were great (my favorites were the raptors and velociratpers). I've owned way too many HDDs over the many years, and I can say that I haven't had issues with any, but again I do my research and only order from what I believe to be good runs of drives. In case you have never done so, take a look at the reports that Backblaze puts out on their drive reliability. I found it pretty eye opening. Before Backblaze start sharing their data, there used to be a site that crowd sourced HDD lifetimes and failure causes that I used to use when buying drives and I always entered my drive data there. I can't recall the name of it now nor do I know if it still exists, but you could definitely spot the "bad" gens on there and WD and Seagate were both pretty even as far as I recall. I remember Hitachi being statistically worse, but it made sense as they bought IBM's derided Deskstar business from them. Ironically, WD ended up buying Hitachi's HDD business years later, but I think it was considered OK by then.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

If EA or Ubisoft don't get their shit together this won't be enough.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

You thought 50TB was it? LOL! Hold on to your butts because 53.713TB SSDs are coming! These will cost you all your vital organs at 35years of age. Brains included.

[-] [email protected] 108 points 3 days ago

Having been burned many times in the past, I won't even trust 40 GB to a Seagate drive let alone 40 TB.

Even in enterprise arrays where they're basically disposable when they fail, I'm still wary of them.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago

Still, it's a good thing if it means energy savings at data centers.

For home and SMB use there's already a notable absence of backup and archival technologies to match available storage capacities. Developing one without the other seems short sighted.

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[-] [email protected] 64 points 3 days ago

That's pretty impressive a couple of those and you could probably download the next Call Of Duty.

[-] [email protected] 85 points 3 days ago

So all the other hard drives will be cheaper now, right? Right?

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Imagine how long it’ll take to rebuild your raid array after one fails lol

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

underrated comment. i'd much rather clone a 16 tb drive than 50 tb one. Also better speeds considering the use of more drives. That said, if I can save on electricity, noise, enclosure space, and very importantly, money, it could be pretty cool. Just need to wait and see how reliable these things are and if they are going to carry a price point that makes them make sense.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Wow great. From seagate. The company that produces drives with the by far lowest life expectancy compared to the competiton

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

And IIRC moved their headquarters to some Caribbean island to avoid paying US corporate taxes.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

They're called Seagate, not Landgate.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure they are fiscally located in Ireland like a lot of big companies for tax reason and for EU VAT reasons.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Is this true? I remember them being very reliable in the past.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Can't wait to see how these 40 TB hard drives, a wonderment of technology, will be used to further shove AI down my throat.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

If you aren't running a home server with tons of storage, this product is not for you. If the price is right, 40TB to 50TB is a great upgrade path for massive storage capacity without having to either buy a whole new backplane to support more drives or build an entirely new server. I see a lot of comments comparing 4TB SSDS to 40TB HDD's so had to chime in. Yes, they make massive SSD storage arrays too, but a lot of us don't have those really deep pockets.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Hey! You! Get offa the Cloud (and grab yourself one of those drives). You can keep your thoughts to yourself, now you can keep your data to yourself, like in the recent old times.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Best to get at least 2 so you have a backup

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[-] [email protected] 61 points 3 days ago

Incoming 1Tb videogames. Compression? Who the fuck needs compression.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Black ops 6 just demanded another 45 GB for an update on my PS5, when the game is already 200 GB. AAA devs are making me look more into small indie games that don’t eat the whole hard drive to spend my money on, great job folks.

E) meant to say instead of buying a bigger hard drive I’ll support a small dev instead.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Imagine losing a 50tb drive because you choose to use Seagate.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Seagate Exos is usually ok. Their generic stuff, is sometimes crap, but that's true of all manufacturers, really.

That being said, I'd be nervous with a single huge drive, no matter where it's from. And even as part of a redundant structure, the rebuild times would be through the roof.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago

And they’d only be like $5k each. HDD prices have gone ridiculous. I’d just like 20TB drives to be reasonably priced. 10TB drives are twice the price they were 5 years ago.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Great, can't wait for it to be affordable in 2050.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 3 days ago

Why in the world does this seem to use an inaccurate depiction of the Xbox Series X expansion card for its thumbnail?

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I can't wait to lose even more data when this thing bricks

[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago

CAN WE PLEASE JUST GET 3.5" SSDS. PLEASE

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