• zelyre@alien.top
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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.