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They're still great deals. You're getting the remaining useful life on a drive made to run for a long time at high data rates. And, you can buy double the disks vs new ones, so you can setup your backup even easier.
https://www.backblaze.c
TLDR; avoid Seagate 12tb and 14tb. 16tb drives so far look very good (X18). No published data yet on X24.
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This model has an H on the end, but Backblaze Drive Stats lists one with a G on the end. The G model looks like it is performing pretty well for Backblaze with a 0.70% annual failure rate so far.
The Seagate spec sheets show what the different model numbers mean, but for the X24 they show only ST16000NM001H, 002H, 005H, 006H, and 007H. So I have no idea what 000H means.
https://www.seagate.com/content/d...-en_US.pdf
EDIT: It looks like the "000H" may be a "002H" that was relabeled to indicate that it's refurbished. At least that's what I see from non-US sites like Amazon.uk: https://www.amazon.co.u
Item model number ‎ST16000NM002H / NM000H
Check backblaze stats and you will see they still have the biggest hard drive failure rates from any company.
My friend said the same thing "SeaGates are good now". I bought one and within a year it died, I lost all my data. Huge collection of movies, music, games, programs, all my tools that I coded myself.
Shouldn't have went with his word even though he's in IT. I'm in the space too but I thought sure why not I'll give them a shot.
Data is priceless, if you want to lose it go with SeaGate 🤙
This price is what the 14TB drives have been selling for recently, and this is a slightly newer model.
Since all drives fail I use the cost savings to buy additional ones for backups. I find the benefit of mirroring everything with used/certified drives is the most cost effective. All the warranty does is replace the drive, not the data, and in my experience the warranty replacement is a recertified drive, just like this one.
These are also enterprise grade drives, and while used have been re-certified by the manufacturer. I find the used drives to be better than the consumer grade drives which I have had to RMA for warranty. My thinking is you are getting a drive at a deep discount with a lower risk of failure than just buying a used drive. Also as long as you mirror your data you can replace a failed drive quickly while you wait for a free replacement should it fail in two years.
Worth the risk to me, but everyone is different, but this is my logic for buying them when I used to think you were out of your mind to buy a used hard drive. Sometimes you have to reevaulate things to find out a better way.
Likewise the X24 were released in Q4 of 2023, also falling within the definition of "around" 2024 https://www.anandtech.com/show/21...-hamr-hdds [anandtech.com]
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Check backblaze stats and you will see they still have the biggest hard drive failure rates from any company.
My friend said the same thing "SeaGates are good now". I bought one and within a year it died, I lost all my data. Huge collection of movies, music, games, programs, all my tools that I coded myself.
Shouldn't have went with his word even though he's in IT. I'm in the space too but I thought sure why not I'll give them a shot.
Data is priceless, if you want to lose it go with SeaGate 🤙
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