6 TB not enough for you? Seagate now has a 8 TB drive in the works - Polidicks

I have a 4tb filled with films and shows and would be so sad if I lost it all. Need to invest in another HDD to backup

[QUOTE=Egon Spengler;45821044]Going to remain rather optimistic about this since iirc Seagate still has the highest failure rates when it comes to HDDs. This is still pretty amazing though.[/QUOTE] We use Seagates extensively at work (hundreds per month) and the failure rate is surprisingly small. Seagate used to be a bad word in the storage market but they've come a long way.

finally a place to store all the train simulator DLC

I'd probably get a virus and have to reformat by half-way

Holy crap, Im running a personal file storage server with only 7 terabytes in it but theres 6 drives in total. I can replace that with one physical hard drive now (although that would be dangerous in case of a failure, maybe two in raid)

[QUOTE=bdd458;45821251]I've had a Seagate HDD for nearly 2 years and its worked flawlessly. I got a DOA 3tb from them recently, but it was under warranty so I had a replacement shipped. I got a 4tb instead of a 3tb and it works fine. Unless your doing heavy level shit with your Seagate drives you'll be fine.[/QUOTE] In our family we had like 5 Seagates die on us in span of 3 years. Seagate is pretty trash.

get on my level [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/BzA5auV.png[/IMG]

[QUOTE=Novangel;45821253][img]http://i.imgur.com/rAyhGTj.png[/img] I don't even know how it's that full.[/QUOTE] You could scan it with [url=http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/download.html]spacesniffer[/url], just saying.

[QUOTE=redBadger;45821393]And yet people will still bitch when their games are over 50 gigs[/QUOTE] If a game is even near 50 gigs its optimization is shit, no modern game has enough content to justify that size.

[IMG]http://puu.sh/bbmwz/7e11bcbf7c.png[/IMG] I wonder if I can fit a harddrive to replace my dvd drive.

[QUOTE=Havolis;45821958]and im sitting here with my 512 gb hdd[/QUOTE] and im sitting here with my 120 gb ssd

At this rate, by the year 2030, we would have a 100TB HDD and 500GB SSD as the standard for all computers. Or better yet, people just forgo HDD and go for the SSD.

I'd be really REALLY paranoid about losing data with a drive that size. As for brands, WD and Hitachi have been very solid for me. I've only had one WD black give out on me. If i have the option, i buy WD blues.

[QUOTE=Skipcast;45824280]You could scan it with [url=http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/download.html]spacesniffer[/url], just saying.[/QUOTE] The problem is when you scan it, and you don't see a few really large files, but millions of small files that add up.

I have 5 Seagate drives and they've been on for no more then 2 years 2 months at most and 8 months at the least. My worst drive is at 45% reliability because of the RSC at 65/100 and it's been there since I got the drive, I don't notice any performance issues and I've run every type of scan and test I could on it. The near worst drives I've ever dealt with are Maxtor and Hitachi Deskstar (deathstar) drives for simple failures but was still able to recover all data a little over half the time. All total failure drives I've run into were all WD drives, however any drive from WD that was 80gig or below have been among the most reliable drives I've had the pleasure of working with. But as with any person and any drive as I've noticed over the years is not everyone has the same experience, and not all drives from any manufacturer are going to fail or champion run for years like the next will. It almost entirely matters WHEN you get or got the drive as the batches of drives tend to change quality, such as my drives, they are all quite a few years old but I could get a Seagate drive from Newegg right now and could wind up going through 3 to 20 before I get one that isn't going to fail soon after or have problems.

Personally the last 3 seagate hdd ive seen have lasted over 5 years. That said though, my faith is still in WD.

[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;45828061]The problem is when you scan it, and you don't see a few really large files, but millions of small files that add up.[/QUOTE] Useful for finding a 27gb backup game folder you made when troubleshooting mods you didn't want to have to redownload though.

I had a bad experience with Seagate after losing 4 1TB drives within a single week, the first two died after 2 days of operations, the 2 replacements then died after the exact same amount of time. Replaced them with a single 1TB WD drive, which is still going strong 3 years later. Funny thing is, I originally started using Seagate drives after the WD drive I had at the time died :v: 6/8TB per drive is really pushing it though, that's an awful lot of data to lose if a single drive kicks the bucket. Something like 6 2TB drives in a RAID6 would provide better reliability, pain to backup though of course.

So this is now being "Post Your Hard Drive Status". I wonder how you guys happen to fill your drives so fast. I never download any movie or my whole Steam library though. [t]http://i.imgur.com/Wkym1G7.png[/t] (Running Panthera being my brand new 128GB SSD which runs OS and programs, Old Donkey being my old 640GB HDD where all of my data (downloads, projects, music, etc) is) On topic though, I guess. Never had any Seagate hard drive, but I don't think I need 8TB. 1.5TB might just be enough, more or less.

I've noticed that getting a larger hard drive simply means I will fill it up faster and then end up with a bogged down piece of crap for a computer. I've recently swapped the 320GB HDD of my laptop with a 128GB SSD and I thought I would be absolutely strapped for space and it would be crap and so on, but having a clean slate and a relatively limited amount of space is a godsend. Now I take care to delete files and make sure I'm not installing anything useless.

I thought if you went over 2TB the chances of data becoming corrupt and lost increases dramatically?

[QUOTE=pentium;45821257]I would not trust any modern hard drive of that capacity unless it was part of a fault tolerant RAID. that's a lot of potentially lost data if shit hit the fan.[/QUOTE] Imagine how expensive a RAID 6 of these would be :v:

[QUOTE=Novangel;45821253][img]http://i.imgur.com/rAyhGTj.png[/img] I don't even know how it's that full.[/QUOTE] Probably steam games and downloads folder. My download folder allow was about 50 GBs before I delete it.

[QUOTE=Midas22;45834387]I thought if you went over 2TB the chances of data becoming corrupt and lost increases dramatically?[/QUOTE] Yeah, as the size increases the odds of an unrecoverable read error go up, which is why it's a bad idea to run a RAID5 with large disks (RAID6 has the exact same problem, just with a larger drive size, etc.)

[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;45821087]Yep: [t]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/blog-fail-drives-manufacture.jpg[/t] (sauce: [url]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/[/url])[/QUOTE] I was under the impression that Backblaze has already been shown to have extremely poor methodology for their tests. Not that I particularly like Seagate, but this chart is of questionable validity. [editline]30th August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Brt5470;45822181]I would totally recommend them if you get the ones with 2yr warranties, anything less is likely from the chinese district and will definitely break. With that said, when I eventually buy a new set of drives for a new set of recording RAID1's, I will go with RED likely.[/QUOTE] Read reviews on amazon/newegg/other big stores. High TB REDs may as well be greens. They are apparently complete and utter shit. Tons of doa's, tons of failures after a few months.

[QUOTE=glitchvid;45822129]After they fucked up with the 7200.11 line's firmware, I was officially done with Seagate.[/QUOTE] Only hard drive I bought from seagate was of that line. Mechanically fine, but the firmware fucked it up so it's unusable. Never again.

My 1 TB Seagate HD failed the other day, and I lost all my games, music, pictures, shows, movies, anime, and a several programs thanks to it. Meanwhile my OS drive is older and still running fine. I don't trust Seagate

[QUOTE=matt000024;45822122]If we do ever hit a limit we can't pass and people start "renting" space from mass storage facilities it will be a sad day.[/QUOTE] what makes you think that hasn't already happened

Pretty strange, I have a setup here which has 3 Seagate drives, all of them work fine, except for the two drives I use for my NAS, which has one that does slam its moving head around after the platter spinned up, and one that randomly starts clicking when running. But all by all, those two drives read and write fine. It's not like Seagate is my main preference for drives, it was just pure coincidence to get them. [T]http://upl.kittehcat.org/2014-08-31_18-00-36.png[/T]

I might just buy one of those for backups. I'm really fucking paranoid when it comes to losing all my shit one day.