Seagate Hardrives

[swampi800]

Ive seen a few cheap Seagate one , two and three GB Hardrives....
Nas Hdd!
Are these of any lesser quality to previous Seagate models.They seem to be cheap and cheerful looking but do they have the life?
I need to push my Pc hard drive space to a maximum , my games are taking over.

 

[Deders]

Seagate have consistently had more returns than pretty much any other manufacturer for the last few years.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/

 

[Charlie98]

If they are the straight up 3TB Barracudas, I would stay away from them, and probably any 3TB Seagate variant.

The 4TB HDDs seem to be faring better (according to Backblaze's latest,) and I've seen those and the 5TB HDDs fairly cheap lately. You didn't mention a budget or how much total space you need.

 

[master_shake_]

Ive seen a few cheap Seagate one , two and three GB Hardrives....
Nas Hdd!
Are these of any lesser quality to previous Seagate models.They seem to be cheap and cheerful looking but do they have the life?
I need to push my Pc hard drive space to a maximum , my games are taking over.

hmmm....

what year is it?

get toshibas.

 

[Arachnotronic]

I've had a lot of good experiences over the years with Western Digital HDDs. Seagate ones have generally been OK, but I've had far more Seagate drives fail than Western Digital ones.

 

[Pandasaurus]

I've pretty much only ever had two hard drives, they've been in a RAID0 array (with no real backups, I'm living dangerously here) for over 10 years. Yeah, they're Seagate. I'm expecting them to fail spectacularly some day soon since Seagate apparently has a super-high failure rate (never mind the quantities involved in the comparison), but I've been disappointed so far.

 

[swampi800]

Cheers i thought the advert and individual cost was appreciative till i saw the colours on the label and thought "cheap!"
I would ideally like to buy a 3 or 4 gb seeing how my 2tb split drive has filled wwith games already and reconstitute my whole machine again.It,s such fun teching your own system!

 

[freeskier93]

I've never had issues with Seagate drives. I've also never had issues with Western Digital.

The oldest hard drive I currently own is a 250GB Seagate external drive, it's just about 8 years old and still works fine.

 

[MongGrel]

I've never had issues with Seagate drives.

I have, several times over the years.

Just my two cents.

 

[swampi800]

I take both sides of the coin.
I would hate to have a sizeable drive screw up on me!

 

[Red Squirrel]

I recently bought two 3TB Seagates on sale for backup drives. They are already showing tons of errors, though I've been told I don't have to worry too much about those, but still other drives never show that many errors. I only use them for backups so I figure odds of ALL my backup drives failing AND my live data is pretty slim so they're fine for that.

I would not trust Seagates in a live data situation though, even raid unless it's raid 6 or some other form where more than one can fail at once.

 

[smitbret]

I recently bought two 3TB Seagates on sale for backup drives. They are already showing tons of errors, though I've been told I don't have to worry too much about those, but still other drives never show that many errors. I only use them for backups so I figure odds of ALL my backup drives failing AND my live data is pretty slim so they're fine for that.

I would not trust Seagates in a live data situation though, even raid unless it's raid 6 or some other form where more than one can fail at once.

Seagates show more Raw Read Error Rates and Seek Error Rates of the way those are values are calculated.... way over my head:

http://sgros.blogspot.com/2013/01/seagate-disk-smart-values.html
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/Seagate_SER_RRER_HEC.html

They are fine.

 

[thilanliyan]

I used to exclusively by Seagate more than 10 yrs ago but have not bought one recently. Once they moved to 3yr warranties I switched to Western Digital Black drives. And for SSDs I have two Intels.

 

[XavierMace]

I've had zero issues with the 16x 2TB Seagates I have running 24x7.

 

[swampi800]

This was something i was figuring upon

 

[midwestfisherman]

hmmm....

what year is it?

get toshibas.

You're starting to sound like a broken record!

what year is it? what year is it? what year is it?

WTF?

 

[swampi800]

The year of the cornflake!