Seagate smashes largest HDD world record with 36TB hard drive and reveals a 60TB model is coming
It took the world's largest HDD vendor only one month to add 4TB to its previous biggest HDD
You mean I could lose even more data when it inevitably craps out?
(don't mind me, I'm dealing with a failed RAID5 array with one disk dead and one dying, I need to vent)
For real, the only hard drives I’ve ever had fail on me were Seagates.
I’ve owned several hundreds of drives. No manufacturer is immune. It’s more about the drive model than anything. Enterprise disks are better. Each manufacturer has made crappy drives. Go for the nicer model of whomever you like, beat it to death in its first month. If it survives infant mortality it will last a long time.
This is why I love the md array in Unraid. If I was to lose 1 data drive and 2 parity drives at once (unlikely), I’d still only lose the data on the single failed data drive, not the entire array as the data isn’t striped across all drives.
Yes it’s a bit slower but it’s my media server so still plenty fast for that.
Can't wait to try these out in 7 years when all the datacener refurbs hit the second hand market
That's nice but prices haven't moved for more than 5 years.
My on the go music library 512 GB SanDisk MicroSD from 2 months ago had the same price as my first 16 GB SanDisk MicroSD I put in my HTC Wildfire S.
Has nothing to do with this, but every time someone mentions memory prices, I can’t help but think of this.
I paid over $100 for my first 128MB USB drive around 2002.
I can’t remember what I paid for my 40mb MFM hard drive in 1992. I kind of want to say it was around like $200. ?
The Wildfire S is more than 10 years old tho
Hard drives are the new tape drives it seems. Something most non-tech people thought was obsolete ages ago but are instead just going into a niche.
Just finished backing up my 33TiB to LTO4 Tapes. That's 8.8kg or 44 tapes. Still cheaper and longer shelf life then HDDs
Seagate has been very hit n miss with me. I've had one of their drives last near a decade only for a newer model of the same drive to fail within 6 months.
What's generally considered more reliable brands for around the same price? preferably ones easy to grab in the UK.
Seagate has been very hit n miss with me. I've had one of their drives last near a decade only for a newer model of the same drive to fail within 6 months.
This is called anecdotal evidence and does not serve any purpose.
What's generally considered more reliable brands for around the same price? preferably ones easy to grab in the UK.
Get the best price/performance/capacity/warrenty drive from any of the 3 major brands and you are good.
Look up the backblaze drive analysis to get an idea.
