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Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity) (www.guru3d.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Seagate had some bad luck with their 3TB drives about 15 years ago now if memory serves me correctly.

Since then Western Digital (the only other remaining HDD manufacturer) pulled some shenanigans with not correctly labeling different technologies in use on their NAS drives that directly impacted their practicality and performance in NAS applications (the performance issues were particularly agregious when used in a zfs pool)

So basically pick your poison. Hard to predict which of the duopoly will do something unworthy of trusting your data upon, so uh..check your backups I guess?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Had good impressions and experiences with Toshiba drives. Chugged along quiet nicely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah our file server has 17 Toshiba drives in the 10/14 TiB sizes ranging from 2-4 years of power-on age and zero failures so far (touch wood).

Of our 6 Seagate drives (10 TiB), 3 of them died in the 2-4 year age range, but one is still alive 6 years later.

We're in Japan and Toshiba is by far the cheapest here (and have the best support - they have advance replacement on regular NAS drives whereas Seagate takes 2 weeks replacement to ship to and from a support center in China!) so we'll continue buying them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ah I thought I had remembered their hard drive division being aquired but I was wrong! Per Wikipedia:

At least 218 companies have manufactured hard disk drives (HDDs) since 1956. Most of that industry has vanished through bankruptcy or mergers and acquisitions. None of the first several entrants (including IBM, who invented the HDD) continue in the industry today. Only three manufacturers have survived—Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That decade old one is 3TB. 😅

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, I have about 10 dead 3TB drives sitting around in my closet. I took the sacrifice so you don't have to :-)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

at least you have a bunch of nice coasters and cool magnets now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Thanks. 👍