So how many more stories of these drives being absolute garbage do we all have?
Of all the drives I’ve ever owned. From Hitachi, Maxxtor, Seagate, Western Digital and others…this is the only one I’ve had that died. Apparently this is a trend with these particular drives?
This one is currently a paperweight
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I installed cctv DVRs and NVRs for 15 years featuring hard drives from multiple manufacturers.
Out of hundreds, a single WD drive has failed (a 4tb WD red that spun for 7 years before failure) and nearly every of multiple dozens of Seagate drives failed. The NVRs/DVRs that I used these Seagate 3tb drives in all failed within 12 months of deployment and cost our company tens of thousands of dollars in service calls to replace them, all at our own cost due to being in the warranty period.
Never again. WD for life.
iirc I bought 6 of them and all 6 failed in the first 3 years lol
Yeah, I lost 2 of the damn things. They were free, but damn.
I’ve got six 2tb barracudas with 200k+ hrs and three with 80k+ I’ve only lost one barracuda over the years.
It depends on the kind of use they are used for computing, gaming etc. For storage of just the data they won’t get much wear and tear and last long. The optimum power supply, data usage, read/write operations are markers for these drives, the more in use, lower voltage supply makes them die faster.
Seems to me that must have been a great drive. Lasted 10 years, despite the warranty being only three years. I would be happy if all my drives lasted that long.
Thanks for letting us know about your great experience with this drive.
10 years! Amazing!
I have mine still collecting dust somewhere. Died after 2 years and I got no compensation at all. Went fully SSD for my non storage systems after that.
Seagate got a reputation for that series of high failure rates after a batch of drives were made using parts salvaged from a flood in China. In the grant scheme of total drives made, it was less than 5% that failed. Unfortunately for Seagate, the drives all failed within a few months of each other, giving the impression that the drives were extremely unreliable.
It is over a decade old.
How long should a hard drive last, do you suppose?
More than the year it did. It’s been used as a paperweight for close to a decade.
idk ive never had good luck with seagate drives.
i have 10 Ultrastar helium drives and man, those things are bulletproof i love them
The 3tb capacity drives- nearly all of the various models and brands- had huge issues- but these were among the worst drives I’ve ever seen. 2011 was a rough year- at the time I was helping fill in building white boxes and we used to order hard drives by the pallet from our VAR- the flooding in Thailand really screwed with our supply line for hard drives and jacked the prices wayyy up. I remember the day we opened the first full case of these (~20 drives iirc) and only 4 passed initial burn in testing. Well over half didn’t even survive the initial clone. It was bad enough that our sales rep drove over with a UHAUL and a pallet of WD replacements later that week. Seagate also dropped the typical 3 year warranty to only 1 year about that same time. Needless to say we switched to WD and didn’t look back. The big joke at the time was they had white labeled a new ‘death star’ hard drive (IBM/Hitachi Deskstar drives were notoriously bad) that had more storage than the old ones. At one point there was a class action lawsuit or two but I don’t think they went anywhere. Huge mess. I will say the ones that survived burn in may have been fine long term, but we just did a full blanket swap with WD drives as it wasn’t worth the risk.
Seagate drives are unreliable, avoid them!
My 4tb barracuda just maxed out at 5MB/s for some reason. It only lasted a year.
I transferred some data from one PC (Nvme SSD) to another PC over the internet last night which was a 4TB Barracuda drive and managed to get sustained speeds of 100mbit/s. Made short work of I think about 50GB of data.
Would’ve killed for those speeds in the Limewire days 😂
Heh, this particular model is well known for having a high failure rate. Mine did pretty good, considering. I bought four when they were brand new and put them into my server, running OpenSolaris so that I could use ZFS. Ran them for a couple of years, then the server ended up being stored in a metal shed in a forest for five years. Used it for a short while then built a new server. Three of the four disks had a ton of bad sectors, but ZFS came to the rescue and let me transfer everything off without losing a thing - it just took a while. I used the fourth drive as a backup drive for a few months before it started throwing errors.
I still love Seagate and have always had great luck with them, it’s just this particular model that had issues :P
i have that drive, hes been chugging along for years WOOT I GOT LUCKY!!!
