And I did. Three months later, 21 fucked up sectors. Thanks you worthless shit company. Now it's time to wait several weeks for a new replacement drive which will most likely be a refurbished drive because you're so goddamn fucking cheap.
Fuck Seagate. It was a Ironwolf 8TB for those wondering. $280 down the fucking drain.
Can someone who returned a drive for a replacement tell me if it's a smooth process with Seagate's RMA? Oh man I'm so fucking mad right now, I have to restore the shit from my back up on a new drive.
Every single drive I own is actively failing. I just mirror them all and replace when they die for real.
Jaxson Diaz
Everyone and their mothers have been saying "Seagate is good now". This is literally my first Seagate drive and it failed.
Is there a way to know if sectors can fuck up and corrupt data? It happened right after I downloaded a bunch of things and I cba re-downloading 15GB.
Alexander Clark
I have a Seagate drive that is still running healthy after 7 years. Proper handling and cooling does wonders.
Jason Sanchez
t. western digital employee
Adrian Morgan
I would never recommend a Seagate drive
Carter Jenkins
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Seagate has always been shit. The combination I recommend is:
1.) Build dedicated NAS box with ECC ram and a high-quality power supply. 2.) Connect it to an active PFC battery backup system. 3.) Install freeNAS. 4.) lock-down permissions 5.) enable offsite backups (cloud, etc.) 6.) you win.
Carson Edwards
>buying just one drive and expecting it not to fail
Jace Martin
What do you mean? Also I use Winblows because of work, I don't have the time and money to build a NAS
John Campbell
>tfw been using Seagate for 15 years with zero issues
Carter Jackson
I have several drives. Never had a drive fail until now because of Sesgate.
I plan on getting a NAS but why ZFS? Also my Internet is awful, it would take ages to upload or download something from it, unless there's a way to directly connect it to the PC?
Hudson Peterson
Your loss.
Jordan Bennett
I've owned a seagate for 12 years. I have one hard drive from seagate that is 30 years old and its still going. also thye OP is a shill for WD pretending to have problems.
T. owner of WD and seagate drives.
if your using it as a back up drive get a NAS rated drive and the same with raid. stop using cheap drives for hardcore drive useage.
Juan Jackson
How is Ironwolf a cheap drive?
Brayden Butler
>buy seagate 1tb in 2008 >still use it daily a decade later
wow
Adam Ward
I bought a hitachi drive and its been about 7 years. No fail. I kinda want to buy a seagate one but this is the second thread saying seagate is bad
Lucas Gonzalez
Seagate has always been fine, that meme study was putting bottom tier, light duty drives through horrific 24/7 server conditions. All products from all companies have failure rates, that's why warranties exist in the first place.
>I don't have the time and money to build a NAS >spent $280 on an 8TB drive >doesn't have $400 to build a half decent NAS setup with a few TB of capacity Nigger your priorities are fucked.
Andrew Thomas
I've used Seagates as a primary storage drive + backup for 5 years and never had an issue.
My running assumption is that the "Seagate is bad" idea comes from that one bad SKU they had and sustained by confirmation bias.
Justin Gonzalez
OP here. I bought the Seagate Ironwolf for four reasons. 1. Amazon reviews seemed ok. 2. Price 3. Seagate has changed the name of their drives more than two times since their "incident" with their Barracuda model a decade ago. 4. It's much faster than WD Red 8TB.
Too bad it died after three months, I'm very pissed because it's expensive and I thought Seagate was reformed. I hope this is the last time I'm sending it in.
Leo Ward
Ironwolf is not a enterprise or NAS rated drive its a high end consumer drive.
Dominic Young
A good NAS is $400? Either way, my Internet is a joke. It would take years to transfer a file at 5GB to my NAS. For now, I use several drives in my PC.
Robert Sanders
ive had drives from all companies go bad on me. ive even had m.2 drives go bad and ssd's.
Brayden Mitchell
Ironwolf is a NAS rated drive.
>Enterprise I see you need to buy the absolute best for the highest and most overpriced price tag if you want a decent drive from Seagate.
Cooper Russell
>I see you need to buy the absolute best for the highest and most overpriced price tag if you want a decent drive from Seagate. duh
why do you think WD reds and blacks exist for... decorations? the state of brainlets is shocking lol.
btw get a Iron wolf Pro or enterprise drive next time
Carson Harris
>$280 down the fucking drain. RMA it. It's only 280 down the drain if you don't make use of their warranty.
In other news. My two arrays of 2x 6TB ironwolf drives each have gone through scrubs every week without ever finding a single error. Works on my machine.
I can say the same about my older WD Reds, and much older barracuda 7200.10 drives. You were just unlucky and got that one bad drive.
Matthew Hernandez
An HP Microserver Gen8/10 is about 200-300 dollars for the entry level model (good enough for a file server). You might get it even cheaper if stores around you are selling out their stock of Gen8, or if HP is running another one of their cashback schemes for the microserver.
Chase Martin
What? The NAS is local with your computer, not dependent on the Internet connection to the outside world. As long as you have both your computer and nas on the same network and they gave a gig connection to each other you're fine
Zachary Cox
right this is why you should of been on Iron wolf pro
No one said Seagate is good. They've been a shit brand since 2005 at best.
"Let's face it, we're not changing the world. We're building a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn." - Bill Watkins, Seagate CEO.
Nathaniel Gutierrez
>8TB
>he fell for high capacity HDD meme
John Butler
ive never had a HDD fail on me wtf u guys doing with your pcs
Ryder Lee
they buy HDDs with 8 platters, its like buying 8 HDDs instead of 1, so risk goes 8 times higher
Justin Parker
oooh, i remember that shit, my very first raptor had like 3 platters or so and 10k rpm, friends kept bullying me with enjoy your failing hdd bro
Anthony Morales
I use to use only Maxtor back in the day Tried a seagate one time and it died. When Seagate bought Maxtor, I went to Western Digital. Just bought 2 1 tb drives almost 2 years ago now and haven't had one problem with them.
Carter Perry
I bought two Seagate 4TB drives after getting not one, but two DOA WD 4TB drives. So WD never again.
>your results may vary
Jayden Barnes
Yeah with the bulk that most of these companies there's going to be quite a few clunkers. It's bad though when you're a first time buyer of a particular company. I've been buying WD since 2006 (when seagate bought maxtor) and haven't gotten a clunker yet. In fact those old drives still work and they are stored away as backups with the old content. I whip them out every now and again when I need some items off of them.
Ayden Kelly
I see the WD shilling is back on the menu after people on Sup Forums have been realizing that seagate's only problem were the 3tb drives from years ago and that everything else was WD shilling.
Thomas Ward
Sup Forums used to endorse seagate, fucking newfag.
Julian Young
Sup Forums whats a good tool to check hdd's health? A friend gave me a Seagate drive and is making noises.
Easton Watson
Gsmartcontrol Accept no substitute.
It scrapped some obscure SMART values off an old hitachi and found two "uncorrectable errors" that killed the initial machine that was running on it whereas no other SMART utility could see anything wrong with it.
Julian Wood
fuck up 12% out of blue? I was watching amd all day, made like $4500 tho it all happened in like 1st hour.
