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Oneday77
13 Mar 1636#2
It's nearly Easter, you can carry all your eggs in one basket :wink:
bigdeal66
14 Mar 1610#8
dennisruss3
14 Mar 1610#7
I would never touch another Seagate if they were the last on this Earth. Already lost 2x1TB and a few errors on a 3TB.
dewonderful
13 Mar 1610#5
My hand is quivering over the buy button, but it's a seagate :confused:
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OrribleHarry
13 Mar 16#1
Heat from me.
Oneday77
13 Mar 1636#2
It's nearly Easter, you can carry all your eggs in one basket :wink:
OrribleHarry to Oneday77
13 Mar 16#6
It's ideal as a backup drive.
Stu C to Oneday77
14 Mar 16#19
Only if you are stupid enough to use this as your only storage location!
CyDoNiA to Oneday77
14 Mar 161#24
Whilst I do agree a little with this if you are using it as a backup or like me have 2 backups of important data there is less issue.
Touch wood my 4tb and 5tb Seagates have been fine for ages.
steve23094 to Oneday77
14 Mar 161#34
I see what you're getting at but what's your suggested alternative? To spread data over multiple disks which will just increase the chance of some sort of failure, but only lose a smaller amount of data?
RAID? No professional considers RAID an alternative to backups.
The only correct answer is that if your data is important and irreplaceable and you don't back it up don't moan if you get a hard drive failure.
pantaiema to Oneday77
24 Mar 16#63
Here we go again !!!!
Nope If you put Dinosaur’s eggs and not Hummingbird’s on his basket.
Are you aware that one 3D BluRay Remux DTS could be around 40GB ?
baseley09
13 Mar 161#3
Excellent amount of storage.
QAL
13 Mar 161#4
Excellent
dewonderful
13 Mar 1610#5
My hand is quivering over the buy button, but it's a seagate :confused:
toninhoscotti to dewonderful
14 Mar 161#15
Lol, same here, the word "back up" and "seagate" should never be in the same sentence, I'd definitely would go if it was a western digital or toshiba.
dar72 to dewonderful
14 Mar 16#20
I think it's just down to luck, I've got a Seagate drive in my PC that's over 5 years old, never had an issue
Buy two and RAID?
dennisruss3
14 Mar 1610#7
I would never touch another Seagate if they were the last on this Earth. Already lost 2x1TB and a few errors on a 3TB.
bigdeal66
14 Mar 1610#8
conor147
14 Mar 161#9
Seagate, garbage.
steve23094 to conor147
14 Mar 162#38
Based on what? The feedback loop people like yourself keep perpetuating? I know this originally stems from a discredited Backblaze report, but since that's what you're thinking of...
Backblaze's latest report (Q3 2015) does not include 5TB Seagate or WD disks. But it does include 6TB Seagate and WD disks, and their 2015 failure rate was 2.9% and 5.73% respectively.
OMG! WD drives are garbage! I'll never buy a WD drive again in my life. /sarcasm
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Touch wood my 4tb and 5tb Seagates have been fine for ages.
RAID? No professional considers RAID an alternative to backups.
The only correct answer is that if your data is important and irreplaceable and you don't back it up don't moan if you get a hard drive failure.
Nope If you put Dinosaur’s eggs and not Hummingbird’s on his basket.
Are you aware that one 3D BluRay Remux DTS could be around 40GB ?
Buy two and RAID?
Backblaze's latest report (Q3 2015) does not include 5TB Seagate or WD disks. But it does include 6TB Seagate and WD disks, and their 2015 failure rate was 2.9% and 5.73% respectively.
OMG! WD drives are garbage! I'll never buy a WD drive again in my life. /sarcasm