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Seagate Archive Drives (8TB)

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nathan

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Personally wouldn't touch Seagate drives with a barge pole. Only buy HGST or WD now.

 

I've never had an issue with them. but had 3 WD fail on me.

 

Think it's mainly luck of the draw now a days

gshaw

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As above, the name Seagate is now synonymous with failure. Barge pole here too.

 

How they've managed to take the reliable Samsung HDD technology and either ignore it or turn it into the reputation above takes some skill (not in a good way!)

Arthur

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I cursed myself for buying Seagate last time - as I've had numerous fails

Backblaze seems to like the 4TB and 6TB Seagate drives. :)

 

Confidence in Seagate 4 TB Drives

You might ask why we think the 4 TB Seagate drives we have now will fare better than the 3 TB Seagate drives we bought a couple years ago. We wondered the same thing. When the 3 TB drives were new and in their first year of service, their annual failure rate was 9.3%. The 4 TB drives, in their first year of service, are showing a failure rate of only 2.6%. I’m quite optimistic that the 4 TB drives will continue to do better over time.

 

6 TB Drives and beyond: Not Sure Yet

We’re beginning the transition from using 4 TB to using 6 TB drives. Currently we have 270 of the Western Digital Red 6 TB drives. The failure rate is 3.1%, but there have been only 3 failures. The statistics give a 95% confidence that the failure rate is somewhere between 0.1% and 17.1%. We need to run the drives longer, and see more failures, before we can get a better number.

 

We have just 45 of the Seagate 6 TB SATA 3.5 drives, although more are on order. They’ve only been running a few months, and none have failed so far. When we have more drives, and some have failed, we can start to compute failure rates.

 

Which Hard Drive Should I Buy?

All hard drives will eventually fail, but based on our environment if you are looking for good drive at a good value, it’s hard to beat the current crop of 4 TB drives from HGST and Seagate. As we get more data on the 6 TB drives, we’ll let you know.

Arthur

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HGSTs 10TB HDDs are due to be released next month. Perhaps it's worth waiting for those? :eek:

 

HGST ready to launch first helium-filled 10TB HDDs

 

This division of Western Digital started sampling its first 10TB sealed HDDs a while ago, the HDDs are filled with helium and use shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology to offer even platters with 1.43TB of storage capacity on each of them.

 

The 3.5-inch form factor SATA 3 drive will offer 128 MB of cache, a five-year warranty, two million hour meantime between failure (MTBF) rating, and Instant Secure Erase features.

 

Looks like the HDDs will be released next month already, and hey they won't be the only 10TB HDDs from HGST. The firm is also rumored to be working on a six-platter variant with 1.66TB of storage capacity on each platter.

XiJ

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Won't the helium filled ones be much more expensive?

 

Unthought the idea with seagate archive line was they were large capacity and cheap!

Arthur

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Won't the helium filled ones be much more expensive?

Definitely! The 8TB HGST He8 is £492 inc. VAT so the 10TB model will be even more expensive.

 

Since neither Western Digital or Toshiba make 8TB HDDs and some people discount Seagate, the HGST Helium drives are the only ones left.

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XiJ

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As a personal drive I'd be willing to take a punt in the seagate. It'd be great as an archive backup for my media centre files.

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