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Seagate posts 30% growth as HAMR drives lift it from slump – Blocks and Files
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Not a great position to be in. I do wonder if they will ever be able to beat their $14.9 B annual record.
I doubt it. Everybody knows their drives are less reliable, even compared to Toshiba sometimes. So anyone with any sense is buying WD ~~or HGST (they're the same company now, I know).~~
They've let themselves become known as the Wish.com of storage. Should have stopped skimping on quality 15-20 years ago... then maybe...
Edit: HGST is apparently trash now and Toshiba is really good.
Is Seagate really that bad though?
I just go with WD Gold as I tend to use HDDs for 10+ years and I would rather pay a bit more to have the peace of mind.
I switched my entire server to seagate (exos) 3 years ago after I had 3 WD red drives (non of which was older then 4 years) fail within a year. Haven't had any issues since ... I'm not buying WD anymore for the foreseeable future.
Sounds like you got very-unlucky with WD then just regular-lucky with Seagate :P
A good way to think of "quality" in terms of how the manufacturing industry uses the term: Even if Seagate has a 2-4% failure rate (which they do, see my other comment) that still means 96-98% of their drives are just fine (and you probably fall in this group, which is great). But in terms of modern manufacturing, your failure/return rate should be ~1% or less. Otherwise you're just throwing money away, not only on the RMAs, but also all the wasted time/money on manufacturing/disposing of all of those failed drives. So it's a potential 2-3 fold loss (so 4-12% in their case) in revenue. That's not a very good business strategy.
Not to mention you're dealing with millions of drives and customers. Which leads to hundreds/thousands of people voicing their frustrations publicly and you developing a bad reputation. Again, they've done it to themselves.