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Re: Oh, Seagate, how far you'd plummeted

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In article <m9r2iv$r31$1@solani.org>, ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid>
wrote:
> Lewis wrote:
> > <https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/>
> 
> Well... My first thought was "...How mch has HGST payed them to give 
> their disks that good rate?" - Then I began to think of my own disk 
> problems thrugh the years from 1993 till today...
> 
> Failures 3,5":
> Seagate: 1, 1 250gb SATA-II/300
> WD: 3, 2x 200gb ATA + 1 320gb SATA-II/300
> IBM/Hitachi/HGST: +40 disks of various types & sizes from 40-1000gb.
> 
> Failures 2,5":
> Seagate: 2, 1x 160gb SATA-II/300 + 1x 500gb SATA-II/300
> Toshiba: 1, 1x 250gb ATA
> Fujitsu: 1, 1x 500gb SATA-II/300
> WD: 0,
> Samsung: 2, 2x 250gb SATA-II/300
> IBM/Hitachi/HGST: 0,
> 
> External branded USB disks:
> Seagate: 0,
> WD: 0,
> 
> Right now I have apprx. 30 HDs from 100gb to 3,0tb - all Seagate and WD. 
> - So I don't know what to think about Backblaze's 'rating'....

It's a load of bollocks - just another idiotic and inaccurate
statistically manipulated "survey" on a few drives, then claiming the
results are "proof" for every drive. Like anything else, some drives
fail quickly while others from the same company will go on happily for
decades. Whether or not a drive fails depends on MANY MANY factors,
almost none of which you can control.

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Oh, Seagate, how far you'd plummeted Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-01-22 05:49 +0000
  Re: Oh, Seagate, how far you'd plummeted ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2015-01-22 15:47 +0100
    Re: Oh, Seagate, how far you'd plummeted Aldo Raine <apache@scalpem.net> - 2015-01-22 10:04 -0500
    Re: Oh, Seagate, how far you'd plummeted Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-23 09:18 +1300
      Re: Oh, Seagate, how far you'd plummeted gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-01-22 15:18 -0800
    Re: Oh, Seagate, how far you'd plummeted Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-01-23 00:59 +0000
      Re: Oh, Seagate, how far you'd plummeted ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2015-01-23 14:52 +0100

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