schizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 19 hours agoGerman Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hourswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1117arrow-down12cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1115arrow-down1external-linkGerman Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hourswww.tomshardware.comschizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 19 hours agomessage-square14fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squareTheFeatureCreature@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·19 hours 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-squarederanger@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up14·18 hours 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-squarekalpol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 hours 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)