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expired Posted by tDames | Staff • Mar 27, 2023
Mar 27, 2023 4:26 PM
20TB Seagate Exos X20 Enterprise 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive
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The SANs we have at work are loaded with Seagate drives.... the field tech comes out on a regular basis replacing dead ones. On a big SAN it's not a huge deal, you have redundancy. At home in a 1 off or small NAS, it is more of an issue. 20tb is a lot to lose in one shot.
The modesl with NM are their nearline series and actual enterprise drives. The newer/larger capacity ones are exos, older ones are from retired product lines before exos.
I think the Backblaze findings tend to cause more misunderstandings for people than they do clarifying. There's so much going on there. The best graph for most people is the one with the colored lines, Seagate does indeed have a higher failure rate. Other factors do include drive age, product line, and sample size. Seagate also tends to be some of the oldest drives they have and also the largest sample size at ~100K drives.
The 16TB Seagate's look to be doing pretty well at under 1% failure rate which isn't bad. But sure, I'd agree that Seagate's failure rate is higher than others. The HGST HC550 drives are pretty similar in price and what I'd personally go for. I also wouldn't lose sleep over running Seagate thought, with proper redundancy losing a drive isn't a big deal. Anyone not implementing redundancy is on their own no matter what brand they buy.
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Home use, YMMV. I've got a couple of 2.5" USB backup drives that work fine, but I don't use them 24/7.
Home use, YMMV. I've got a couple of 2.5" USB backup drives that work fine, but I don't use them 24/7.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chia/com...are_butto
Chia isn't even taxing on a hard drive...
https://www.reddit.com/r/chia/com...are_butto
Chia isn't even taxing on a hard drive...
Also https://www.backblaze.c
Seagate average around 2% failure rates compared to < 1% for other brands is not a good look
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I have major problems with the way the data is presented in that first link. It feels potentially very misleading. The fact that it includes Maxtor and Samsung drives just adds to my skepticism. I don't think either have manufactured drives in the last decade, especially Maxtor. Both are now effectively owned by Seagate. I'd put more faith in the Backblaze stats but even those have to be taken with a grain of salt and interpreted properly.
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