Seagate's beefy 4TB Barracuda hard drive is on sale for $100
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I have 3 2TB and 1 250gb seagate drives in my current PC. I've had all of them except my newest 2TB for years and I've never had any problems with any of them. I also ran a rosewill psu with an extremely high failure rate for almost 10 years too, I just have good luck with PC parts.
This articles makes me want to swap out my 250gb and oldest 2TB drive for a 4 TB drive to free up a SATA port
I take that back, one of my drives had a very weird issue where one of my main folders just completely disappeared and I needed to use recovery software to get it back.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;52137919]This articles makes me want to swap out my 250gb and oldest 2TB drive for a 4 TB drive to free up a SATA port
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May as well, drives are just absurdly dirt cheap these days for larger sizes, even for the higher end RE Gold and HGST Ultrastars.
[QUOTE=redBadger;52136301]Can we please do away with this whole "Seagate is shit" deal.
They're not shit. There's no difference between these or WD drives.[/QUOTE]
You are factually incorrect.
[QUOTE=icemaz;52136354]This data is from 2013. Here is the data from Backblaze for 2016:
[img]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FY-2016-Failure-Rates-by-MFG.jpg[/img]
[url]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-benchmark-stats-2016/[/url]
Here's some more graphs, this time from 2013 - 2015 using the same data from Backblaze:
[url]http://bioinformare.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/survival-analysis-of-hard-disk-drive.html[/url]
[img]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/blog_q3stats_manufacturer-e1444680042365.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
The Backblaze statistics are a retarded meme either way.
They run consumer drivers past their temperature rating in shitty custom-designed mounts that don't have adequate protection against vibration.
[QUOTE=nikomo;52139946]The Backblaze statistics are a retarded meme either way.
They run consumer drivers past their temperature rating in shitty custom-designed mounts that don't have adequate protection against vibration.[/QUOTE]
The only real difference from consumer end drives and ones like RE Gold is that the latter have sightly different firmware, and are pre-burn in tested. (Yes, there are other differences in available capacity, and some anti vibration tech, but those don't matter to much for petabyte scale bulk archival shit).
Clearly backblaze finds it cheaper to simply buy consumer drives and burn them in themselves.
Also worth mentioning that their storage pods have been though [URL="https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-server/"]6 revisions over the years[/URL], and they've significantly reduced vibration, that's actually the primary reason Seagate was doing terribly, and does perfectly fine now.
[QUOTE=Forumaster;52133424]Yes, because I want to lose 4TB of data at once.
HGST or Western Digital all the way.[/QUOTE]
If it's man made it will fail
[QUOTE=glitchvid;52140036]The only real difference from consumer end drives and ones like RE Gold is that the latter have sightly different firmware, and are pre-burn in tested. (Yes, there are other differences in available capacity, and some anti vibration tech, but those don't matter to much for petabyte scale bulk archival shit).
Clearly backblaze finds it cheaper to simply buy consumer drives and burn them in themselves.
Also worth mentioning that their storage pods have been though [URL="https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-server/"]6 revisions over the years[/URL], and they've significantly reduced vibration, that's actually the primary reason Seagate was doing terribly, and does perfectly fine now.[/QUOTE]
Additionally most enterprise drives have TLER (or TLER like) functionality, where attempts to read a sector will time out after some seconds. This is a good feature in a RAID array as you can simply read it off another drive; but a bad feature on desktops (giving up = no data read).
You can also tune many desktop drives to time out (see smartctl -l scterc), but it typically is not enabled by default.
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