[QUOTE=gastyne;52020223]Is it actually 6TB this time though?[/QUOTE]
What are you referencing?
[QUOTE=MrWhite;52020588]What are you referencing?[/QUOTE]
It was Seagate but still.
[url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1557490[/url]
[QUOTE=MrWhite;52020588]What are you referencing?[/QUOTE]
So what happened to my understanding was the bot responsible for another post about an HDD fucked up, and instead of typing "8TB" it typed out "8GB" and the mods had a field day changing the title mocking the poor robot's error, and everyone else in the thread joked about 8 gigs being a fuckhuge amount and going down further and further until it got to where a 0 byte disk was proposed to be the pinnacle of home computers.
[QUOTE=JerryAnderson;52020613]So what happened to my understanding was the bot responsible for another post about an HDD fucked up, and instead of typing "8TB" it typed out "8GB" and the mods had a field day changing the title mocking the poor robot's error, and everyone else in the thread joked about 8 gigs being a fuckhuge amount and going down further and further until it got to where a 0 byte disk was proposed to be the pinnacle of home computers.[/QUOTE]
Thank you so much for this synopsis. I followed that thread when it first happened, but I couldn't really tell what was going on. Thanks :)
Yeah but 6 is 2 less than 8 so clearly the better deal is still that 8mb Seagate drive.
[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;52020933]Yeah but 6 is 2 less than 8 so clearly the better deal is still that 8mb Seagate drive.[/QUOTE]
You don't even need a computer for the Seagate to work, it's external. Catch up WD
$2,600,342? Oh wait. Shit.
Damn I can't believe I can finally fit my entire digitized cassette collections on a single 6GB hard drive now!
[QUOTE=JerryAnderson;52020613]So what happened to my understanding was the bot responsible for another post about an HDD fucked up, and instead of typing "8TB" it typed out "8GB" and the mods had a field day changing the title mocking the poor robot's error, and everyone else in the thread joked about 8 gigs being a fuckhuge amount and going down further and further until it got to where a 0 byte disk was proposed to be the pinnacle of home computers.[/QUOTE]
The article title was 8GB originally :v:
Oh fuck, it really says $2,600,342, I'm going to be poor.
EDIT:
I'm going to send an email to WD and ask for a refund.
[QUOTE=megafat;52022736]Oh fuck, it really says $2,600,342, I'm going to be poor.
EDIT:
I'm going to send an email to WD and ask for a refund.[/QUOTE]That's probably what 8TB was in the late 1990s.
Well that price went down fast. I knew tech was moving pretty fast, but this is ridiculous.
Bag of chips and a chocolate milk? Oh goody, $2.60 then! Awesome.
[QUOTE=ChronoBlade;52022882]Bag of chips and a chocolate milk? Oh goody, $2.60 then! Awesome.[/QUOTE]Orkel corrected it and in Europe a comma is used place of a decimal point.
I have a bag of chocolate chips does that cover it
Can I pay it with my chocolate Seagate HDD?
[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;52020933]Yeah but 6 is 2 less than 8 so clearly the better deal is still that 8mb Seagate drive.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Levelog;52021183]You don't even need a computer for the Seagate to work, it's external. Catch up WD[/QUOTE]
Seagate hard drives fail more than other harddrives. That's a fact. Look it up.
[QUOTE=J!NX;52023630]Seagate hard drives fail more than other harddrives. That's a fact. Look it up.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure you're fucking about but I really don't want to have to do this dance again.
[QUOTE=J!NX;52023630]Seagate hard drives fail more than other harddrives. That's a fact. Look it up.[/QUOTE]
I typed in 'seagate hard drive fucking up' and the first thing I got was this:
[URL="http://cubeupload.com/im/LSBcCt.jpg"][IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/LSBcCt.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
tbh I wouldn't give up a bag of chips and chocolate milk for a harddrive, even if its 6 TB.
[QUOTE=ChronoBlade;52026212]I typed in 'seagate hard drive fucking up' and the first thing I got was this:
[URL="http://cubeupload.com/im/LSBcCt.jpg"][IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/LSBcCt.jpg[/IMG][/URL][/QUOTE]
Hey look, I replaced "seagate" with "western digital" and I got this:
[IMG]https://puu.sh/v1ZfY/bc999a6f90.png[/IMG]
:wow:
You would be hardpressed to find a mechanical drive that doesn't fail. Some die quicker than others, but a lot of this is likely attributed to a poor batch, shit construction, or that its cheap and cheap comes at a cost.
Seagates on the other hand, do perform quite poorly. I think a major thing is where people who get CDI/Smartmontools installed and see the raw values for read-error rate and think its dying because its non-zero.
Granted, I have seen far more Seagates die than Hitachi, Toshiba and WD disks I have at my workplace.
I have had people open tickets requesting for the seagate to be removed with something else because they dont want their crap to suddenly die out because its something they do quite often.
I only run Western Digital disks in my PC at home. Just personal preference since they last more than 30k hours.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;52026710]
I only run Western Digital disks in my PC at home. Just personal preference since they last more than 30k hours.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I'm sure Seagate and WD are fairly even on reliability, but I just can't trust Seagate after the 7200.11 firmware fuckup that bricked a TON of their drives randomly.
[QUOTE=J!NX;52023630]Seagate hard drives fail more than other harddrives. That's a fact. Look it up.[/QUOTE]
High-end Seagates fail more than cheap WDs.
[QUOTE=Kljunas;52027878]High-end Seagates fail more than cheap WDs.[/QUOTE]
What high end seagate drives do you refer to? Because Barracuda drives are budget.
[editline]29th March 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;52026710]Hey look, I replaced "seagate" with "western digital" and I got this:
[IMG]https://puu.sh/v1ZfY/bc999a6f90.png[/IMG]
:wow:
You would be hardpressed to find a mechanical drive that doesn't fail. Some die quicker than others, but a lot of this is likely attributed to a poor batch, shit construction, or that its cheap and cheap comes at a cost.
Seagates on the other hand, do perform quite poorly. I think a major thing is where people who get CDI/Smartmontools installed and see the raw values for read-error rate and think its dying because its non-zero.
Granted, I have seen far more Seagates die than Hitachi, Toshiba and WD disks I have at my workplace.
I have had people open tickets requesting for the seagate to be removed with something else because they dont want their crap to suddenly die out because its something they do quite often.
I only run Western Digital disks in my PC at home. Just personal preference since they last more than 30k hours.[/QUOTE]
WD externals really are a fucking joke though because they have plenty of models with just USB controllers, or controllers that use their own filesystem which makes the data unreadable without one.
Tbh in all honesty I just use Samsung / Intel because anything else just doesn't seem that sensible
[QUOTE=JerryAnderson;52020613]So what happened to my understanding was the bot responsible for another post about an HDD fucked up, and instead of typing "8TB" it typed out "8GB" and the mods had a field day changing the title mocking the poor robot's error, and everyone else in the thread joked about 8 gigs being a fuckhuge amount and going down further and further until it got to where a 0 byte disk was proposed to be the pinnacle of home computers.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure PCGamer just fucked up and since title edits don't affect the FP article they didn't fix it here. People were making fun of that and the mods started changing it then.
[QUOTE=Levelog;52027951]What high end seagate drives do you refer to? Because Barracuda drives are budget.[/QUOTE]
I think that was a jontron joke
[QUOTE=J!NX;52028023]Tbh in all honesty I just use Samsung / Intel because anything else just doesn't seem that sensible[/QUOTE]
For what?
For hard drives there's basically only two manufacturers now, Seagate and WD.
For solid state it's pretty much IM (Intel/Micron) vs Samsung. Samsung's NAND and controllers are better than Intel, but Intel has its new 3D Xpoint memory in their optane line.
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