Western Digital-owned SanDisk isn't doing great at the moment, with frustrated customers complaining that their valuable data is at risk due to failing SSDs. Although the company...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
HGST drives are the only drive I will ever use for storage.
Backblaze reports have validated my stance.
There are only 2 kinds of storage… Those that have failed and those that will.
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.
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.
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.