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4tb hard drive $99 now at newegg when you apply code

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unfortunately w have seem to have those discussions right after one of us has a hard drive fail and didn't have a back up -

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What sucks is I have an external HD that is 2TB and wont load. Was my back up and my movie HD while deployed in Afghanistan. Now when i hook it up, nothing happens like it dont exist.

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Seagate has made some awful drives since the Typhoon hit Thailand about 5-7? years back. A company called "backblaze" which does cloud based backups, uses consumer drives and publishes their failure rates.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q2-2016/

Going back a few years on their other reports, some of the Seagate drives have had annualized failure rates exceeding 100%

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q3-2015/

 

Stick with Hitatchi GST if you need a mechanical drive, or get an SSD (From Samsung, Crucial, Intel, or Plextor). 

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well thats not good - if they fail it isn't a deal at any price and now I am glad I got wd in the NAS :/

 

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Not all of them, but the lack of QC is concerning. Mechanical drives make up a somewhat dying industry at this point. Lots of consolidation which is crazy to see for a computer guy like me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_hard_disk_manufacturers#/media/File:Diagram_of_Hard_Disk_Drive_Manufacturer_Consolidation.svg

The new NVME 3D SSD's are going to pretty much kill the low end mechanical drives probably in the next 2-3 years. That will probably leave us with only enterprise drives still mechanical.

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