28 Mar
2018
28 Mar
'18
1:20 a.m.
Hitachi 3 and 4tb are VERY good, as are the equivalent
Toshiba from when WD divested themselves
of the Hitachi hi-end line.
Been runnning 4 HGST 4TB for a long while now at home and have been really
happy. My best disks.
1tb was the switchover point to vertical recording, so
those (and esp seagate 1.5tb) are terrible
Ah, have a bunch of used 1.5TB seagates and there was about a 70% failure
rate but I assumed it was due to age on disk and going from 24x7 to off
for a few months then back on. Hoping to move off of those onto 30TB of WD
disks soon if the drives aren't totally dead.
I have a few helium-filled drives spinning.
They've been fine, but I don't know for how long yet.
Have a few HGST 8TB He drives at $work, out of 50 or so maybe 1 failure in
2 years. Very solid but our most expensive drives until you get into flash
storage.
I'm interested to hear how the 12TB Seagates perform. A friend I believe
got a few hundred in so it will be interesting in a year to hear if
they're reliable or not.