• Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Avoid these like the plague. I made the mistake of buying 2 16 TB Exos drives a couple years ago and have had to RMA them 3 times already.

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      3 days ago

      Had that issue with the 3tb drives. Bought 4, had to RMA all 4, and then RMA 2 of the replacement drives all within a few months.

      The last 2 are still operating 10 years later though. 2 out of 6.

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      I stopped buying seagates when I had 4 of their 2TB barracuda drives die within 6 months… constantly was RMAing them. Finally got pissed and sold them and bought WD reds, still got 2 of the reds in my Nas Playing hot backups with nearly 8 years of power time.

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        They seem to be real hit or miss. I also have 2 6TB barracudas that have 70,000 power on hours (8 yrs) that are still going fine.

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          “Hit or miss” is unfortunately not good enough for consumer electronics.

          It means you’re essentially gambling with bad odds so the business you’re giving money to can get away with cutting corners.

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          3 days ago

          Nice, I agree, I’m sure there is an opposite of me, telling their story of a bunch of failed WD drives and having swore them off.