Here's an 8TB hard drive you can power with a single USB connection, not a joke - Sensationalist Headlines

I've only ever had two drives die in my life, both of which were Seagate. My personal preference is WD and dream drive is HGST.

[QUOTE=Broseph_;50071228]Do you work for Seagate or something? I had 5 of their drives fail on me in 6 months before I went to Hitachi; 3 other people in the thread had the same shit happen to me with different hard drives. There's a class action lawsuit against them for producing shit hard drives. Are you seriously dismissing all of us? [editline]4th April 2016[/editline] How about real statistics? [IMG]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/blog-fail-drives-manufactureX.jpg[/IMG] Seagate is shit, stop shilling for them.[/QUOTE] What you're posting is that 3TB drives were shit for Seagate and WD in 2014. Ironically, 4TB wasn't affected. So the conclusion can either be to go for HGST or just 4TB drives. I did the latter with Seagate, and I have yet to have any problems. My 1TB 2.5'' external disk is doing great too. [editline]5th April 2016[/editline] The interresting part is that HGST drives are the cheapest in the bunch.

[QUOTE=Broseph_;50071228] [editline]4th April 2016[/editline] How about real statistics? [IMG]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/blog-fail-drives-manufactureX.jpg[/IMG] Seagate is shit, stop shilling for them.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Levelog;50065104]Part of the issue was a known bad drive. Numbers have greatly improved, better than WD, since the phasing out of that model. [B]Also the backblaze study has some issues with it, especially since most of the Seagate drives were in the gen1 racks instead of the gen2 like the WD's and Hitachi's so they had to handle more heat and vibration.[/B] [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=mastersrp;50074199] The interresting part is that HGST drives are the cheapest in the bunch.[/QUOTE] Oh my, HGST Ultrastars are not cheap. A 6TB Ultrastar is about ~$460 A 6TB Seagate is about ~$200 He mechanical drives are anything but cheap. As a non-air breathing mechanical disk, as their age progresses their helium counts do go down, and when all the helium is gone, so is the drive. But they handle heat and vibration exceptionally well.

He drives are pretty cool. They have their downsides with some performance and such but damn can you crank up some capacity in a 3.5" disk.

[QUOTE=Levelog;50079364]He drives are pretty cool. They have their downsides with some performance and such but damn can you crank up some capacity in a 3.5" disk.[/QUOTE] Well, even this external disk is 8TB, for an air breathing drive is interesting in its own rights. I wonder what kind of quality standards they need to keep on the filter to make sure that no large particles get through and find a place covering up what could be a few GB in sectors. A shit filter in a smaller capacity disk can result in complete failure of the thing. I remember getting a WD black refirb, and the damn thing died out in 6 months. Which at that point well exceeded the warranty, I decided to open her up and found out that the filter was not working well and there was white flakes inside the disk on the platters. Cleaned it up, and retorqued the top plate back on, it worked fine for about another week before it called it quits. [QUOTE=Alice3173;50071369]It's not really shilling if someone's personal experience differs from that of others. I could say ATI cards are utter garbage because my personal experience with them has been every single one I've dealt with dying in less than 6 months but that doesn't mean that AMD is garbage nor does it mean I'm a shill for nVidia when I recommend people go with them over ATI. [/QUOTE] Good thing you're not talking about other defunct brands like Matrox, 3dfx, Sigma designs... I personally wouldn't recommend an ATi card for anyone seeing that they where bought out a decade ago. [editline]6th April 2016[/editline] But I do get what you where talking about. Like I mentioned before, I got a WD Protiege disk here with 94k hrs on it, about a thousand bad sectors and my fix for its death clicking was a good whack with my screw driver. But I never state that WD is a good brand, as I see a lot of failures from them too. Their quality has came back for the most part. The WD Green (WD10EADS) was a pile of absolute shit. But personal experience is just an opinion. I watch drives die throughout all points in their lives. WD RE3 with 7800hrs on it, already throwing out bad sectors and causing problems with linux servers. SG 3TB disks with 300hrs on it, dying. Or some with under 20,000 with over 3000 bad sectors already reported. I mean these things happen, but I see more problems with SG than Toshiba/Hitachi these days.