• SergNH@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Seagate has been no better within the last year. Maybe it’s just with their NAS hard drives. Bottom line is that these drives are failing and it takes 2-3 months if your lucky to get a recertified HD back. Wait, it gets better! Only to find out that the recertified drives fail straight out of the box.

    I had 2 Seagate NAS drives fail within a month of getting them brand new. I got these in the beginning of July. I RMA’d both drives and it took at least 8 weeks to get RMA & ship them. Another 8 weeks to get them back. Only to have both fail right out of the box.

    Only last week was I able to send them out for RMA. At this rate I will be lucky if I get the drives back in January. Will they work? Who the hell knows.

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      1 year ago

      HGST drives are the only drive I will ever use for storage.

      Backblaze reports have validated my stance.

    • AmoebaPrize@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      I had a new 1tb 7200rpm drive from 2016?ish that started having errors after 2 months of use. It still passes SMART and hasnt had any data loss, but it is firmly in the “do not store anything important on” category.

    • az116@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      That’s… weird. I have to return a couple of Seagate drives a year (I have multiple NAS and have close to 50 Seagate drives running at any time).

      The warranty return process takes 5 minutes online, and they send me a new drive that I get in 2-3 days, before I even send the defective one back. And this isn’t a one time thing, this is how it’s worked for me when dealing with Seagate for close to a decade.

      I’m not sure how our experiences have been so different.

    • zelyre@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      All drives fail eventually - but Seagate soured me on their brand years ago.

      Decades ago, young me used to drive down to Fry’s and look at the posted paper flyer for deals.

      A 100GB Seagate drive for a great price? I excitedly bought it, even though my work pile of dead drives mostly consisted of Seagate drives. Something something volume not representing something something complete.

      2 months later, Seagate drive fails. The RMA process was quick and easy. 1 week later, that drive fails. RMA it. A month later, that drive fails.

      Seagate says its the last drive they’ll replace as I must be killing them with my bad Seasonic power supply.

      I replace it with a WD drive at the same price point. No issues.

      Almost 20 years later, I still have my 480p *.mkv collection from tvtorrents.