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

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Lewis wrote:
> Okay, so one time? In band camp? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> was all, like:
>
>> 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...
>
> I haven't had a Hitachi/HGST drive die on me yet. I had *horrible*
> results with Western Digital about 10 years ago and even worse results
> with their support, so it's been about a decade since I bought anything
> from Western Digital since I had a greater than 100% failure rate over
> the course of about 3 years.
>
> Seagate has been good to me until recently, as long as I never touch
> their "desktop" drives and only buy bare drives. that said, I've had a
> sudden rash of failed Seagates in the last 6 months. I think all the 2TB
> drives are dead.

The problem is that when Seagate bought Samsung HD division they 
marketed the Samsung Spinpoint disks as 'Seagate Desktop' and 'Seagate 
External Desktop' and not 'seagate Barracuda' and 'Seagate Expansion 
Desktop'... Now I think they have got hold on these problems...

In my one MacPro I have 2x 3tb Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 and a 1,5tb 
Seagate Constellation (systemdisk). Hereto I have 2x 3tb USB3.0 Seagate 
Expansion Desktop as backup to the internal 3tb disks.

In my other MacPro I have a 1tb Seagate Constellation (systemdisk) a 1tb 
Barracuda 7200.12 and a 320gb Barracuda 7200.11 (for Windows). These 
disks are all now +4 years old. To this MacPro I have a 1tb Seagate 
Barracuda 7200.12 in a FW800 enclosure as system backup + 2x 2tb WD 
Elements and 1x 3tb WD Elements as file backup. All external disk are 
also +4 years old and all working just fine.

I use both MacPros rather heavily for music recording/editing. Just 
working and have never had anyh problem with these. Sometimes I have one 
of the Mps working 24/7 - making real hard rendering when I go to sleep. 
- It requires quite a lot of both computer and disks rendering +20x 1 
hour recordings.:-)

Cheers, Erik Richard

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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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