Some facts - Reliability stats

by Willy Jan 24, 2014 2:55AM PST

everyone wants to know they have gotten a good deal and importantly it will remain so. Here from a large user and installed HD base, their results. Just to let you know my Seagate 1Tb is still working roughly 4yrs. later. I'm in the market for a larger HD in the future.

http://www.techspot.com/news/55399-backblaze-data-shows-hitachi-and-seagate-as-most-and-least-reliable-hard-drives-respectively.html

I hope this helps you a new HD buyer.

tada -----Willy

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That's Horrible. 3 or more people in 100 will

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jan 25, 2014 12:17AM PST

Suffer a loss according to this. Ouch. I bet if we checked if the 3 folk had backups, that at least 2 would not so of the folk that suffer a loss my bet is over half lose it all.
Bob

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Another area

by Willy Jan 26, 2014 1:42AM PST

On my own I found ext. HDs just horrendous when it comes to serviceability. It may not IMHO be the makers fault though I'm sure some are. It just makes sense to blame the user when I go to repair and then ask for the backup and find it shoved in some cranny or lower desk drawer. No protection, not even a simple foam pad or such. Sure they work and then sometimes we find out differently. These usually are Seagate and WD brands or those 3rd party vendors using the same HDs inside. As for Hitachi, I rarely find anyone using them but they do come up now and then. I deal with individual users rarely corporate anymore. So, not that many visits to offices or server farms but I'm sure they report similar results as ext. HDs are loaned or requested from the business users. Which is why I offer carry flash drives(more than 1) and swap data to those for super critical data and yet use the ext. HD as well as normal backups. But, that's me, I never hear the results if they actually use the advise.

tada -----Willy

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Ext. HD reviews

by Willy Jan 26, 2014 1:47AM PST

http://external-hard-drive-review.toptenreviews.com/

http://external-hard-drive-review.toptenreviews.com/find-the-best-external-hard-drive-for-simple-local-backup.html

IMHO, I like Seagate at least they have good website support. If you have a problem and under warranty, they get'r done. -----Willy

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(NT) Good reference...Thanks.

by VAPCMD Jan 25, 2014 6:40AM PST

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The "Death Star" is now good?

by James Denison Jan 25, 2014 1:09PM PST

Ever since they picked up the nomer Death Star due to shoddy quality back when IBM had them, I've avoided them.

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As I recall, the "Deathstar"

by Steven Haninger Mar 16, 2014 9:10AM PDT

used glass platters. My first thought was about something called "cold flow". It's been written that gravity has slowly caused old stained glass to thicken at the bottom and thin at the top. Add centrifugal stress and see what happens. I suppose aluminum could do the same but we don't have aluminum from the same era. I had some of those IBM drives. They were, for their day, very quick compared to other drives. I lost a few of them to the click of death as well.

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Seagate is fine, but don't use Backblaze.

by LFDRPro Mar 12, 2014 8:49AM PDT

This article is pure garbage. Using consumer drives in a datacenter like this tells you literally NOTHING about the reliability in a consumer environment.

Of course Seagate has it's problems, but not 10 worse than the competition for sure.

If anything, the fact that Backblaze admits to using the cheapest drives out their and popping them in and out of servers willy-nilly like they do, should tell you to stay the hell away from their services.

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