Agreed, we bought 5 X 1tb ones of these in January for putting movies on for TVs in our kids bedroom, car, caravan etc. Three have now failed.
We have one western digital one that I bought four years ago for the same thing and it's still going strong.
OrribleHarry to nublets2k
2 Sep 17#9
Get with the times it's 2017! I buy Seagate over WD nowadays as they are now more reliable and better value.
nublets2k to OrribleHarry
2 Sep 17#11
Ummm no. They're cheaper but nowhere near as reliable.
OrribleHarry to nublets2k
2 Sep 17#15
I have literally thousands of HDDs at work I think I know what fails and what doesn't.
Several years ago it was the opposite but not any more.
nublets2k to OrribleHarry
2 Sep 17#16
We've got more than that, literally thousands of dcs and an eye watering number of luns. Seagate are just bad, even Ironwolf aren't worth having.
OrribleHarry to nublets2k
2 Sep 17#18
Don't want to turn this into a p*sing contest but, how on earth do you ascertain "you have more than that" when I didn't actually tell you the quantity?
I get monthly KPI's from our hardware support contractor listing failed components and also the temperature they failed at (part or the SLA is to stick a temperature sticker on every component replaced) and believe me Seagate are not above WD.
But of course you know better as you have more......
nublets2k to OrribleHarry
2 Sep 17#19
We have more than a million, I'd expect that to be more than "thousands". Of course it's all relative, all the laptops we have fail are made by Dell.
OrribleHarry to nublets2k
2 Sep 17#20
Where do you work? To be into "over a million" of hard drives you are talking a user base of at least 750,000 clients. Which last time I checked there were no sites of that size in Europe.
paul_merton to nublets2k
2 Sep 17#12
Stupid argument, as always. It's a lot of data to trust any single hard drive with.
Which is why you make backups. You'd be a buffoon to rely on a single drive to keep your data safe, even if it were 100x more reliable than whatever you perceive this one to be.
nublets2k to paul_merton
2 Sep 17#13
You aren't going to carry more than one though.
Personally I have it in 5 different places, sometimes 11.
They like to say you should have it backed up in at least 3 places, but with Seagate you'll need 3 more.
Also it can't be 100 x 0, because nothing is as unreliable.
paul_merton to nublets2k
2 Sep 17#14
Okay, getting ridiculous now :smile:
nublets2k to paul_merton
2 Sep 17#17
Ikr, don't know how they're still in business tbh.
bens123 to paul_merton
7 Sep 17#26
I buy two of every hard drive I buy. I bought about 6 2-3TB Seagate drives a few years back, literally every single one failed prematurely. WD drives all going strong. I lost no data because of my backups, but I'll never waste my money on Seagate again.
Publix
2 Sep 17#4
After experiencing the convenience of Portable USB powered 4TB drives, I won't be be using anything else for my backup. Waiting for a Portable 4TB deal as backup to my 4TB Portable backup. You can call me lazy.
Thank you so much for that. I already have the Maxtor M3 4TB and I am very happy with it. ... But as a spread the risk precaution I am waiting for the WD version to reduce, or Wait 6 months for the Maxtor to be a different batch. 4TB is just right for me to backup all my stuff once a week; When I have another 4TB I will odd and even week numbers in turn. Years ago, had my work C drive drop dead at power on one morning. The IT crowd couldn't recover anything from it. That was a good lesson.
pet2000 to brian129
2 Sep 17#7
Or, Argos 4TB Seagate including 2 YRS RECOVERY for £109.99 (plus £10 voucher) is the best deal around at the mo. argos.co.uk/pro…870
malhal to pet2000
3 Sep 17#23
except they were about £60 in the sainsburys clear out last week maybe still some left somewhere
popoyaya
2 Sep 17#10
These are only £67 for 4TB, when in stock. Worth keeping an eye on.
probably too thick but not sure the mm of the disk inside yet.
jsoap
3 Sep 17#25
After watching all sorts of discs fail over the last 25 years, I've stopped listening to the popular advice. As Seinfeld said about fruit "it's a gamble". Once you accept that and trust your own strategy, rather than Seagate or whoever, then you can sleep at night.
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We have one western digital one that I bought four years ago for the same thing and it's still going strong.
Several years ago it was the opposite but not any more.
I get monthly KPI's from our hardware support contractor listing failed components and also the temperature they failed at (part or the SLA is to stick a temperature sticker on every component replaced) and believe me Seagate are not above WD.
But of course you know better as you have more......
Which is why you make backups. You'd be a buffoon to rely on a single drive to keep your data safe, even if it were 100x more reliable than whatever you perceive this one to be.
Personally I have it in 5 different places, sometimes 11.
They like to say you should have it backed up in at least 3 places, but with Seagate you'll need 3 more.
Also it can't be 100 x 0, because nothing is as unreliable.
Waiting for a Portable 4TB deal as backup to my 4TB Portable backup.
You can call me lazy.
I already have the Maxtor M3 4TB and I am very happy with it. ...
But as a spread the risk precaution I am waiting for the WD version to reduce, or
Wait 6 months for the Maxtor to be a different batch.
4TB is just right for me to backup all my stuff once a week;
When I have another 4TB I will odd and even week numbers in turn.
Years ago, had my work C drive drop dead at power on one morning. The IT crowd couldn't recover anything from it.
That was a good lesson.
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