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Spacious 24TB hard drive is available for a mere 1 cent per GB [$10/TB] — Seagate's BarraCuda 24TB is back on sale for $249 (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

How are Seagate drives these days? I stopped buying them about a decade ago after having several fail and looking up statistics that showed they were significantly less reliable than the other brands.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago (4 children)

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So it looks like my policy of "only buy Western Digital" is still the right one. But what's happening to HGST?

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

They got bought out... By WDC.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Wow I've been buying WDs for years because I have never had luck with others. Glad to see there's an actual data point for me and it's not just anecdotal.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks for sharing.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Weren’t they also the ones that just broke up a massive counterfeiting ring of refurbished drives being passed off as new? Wonder if that contributed to their bad failure numbers.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

If you go with the higher end Ironwolf drives, they're supposed to be alright.

But this ain't that. You tend to get what you pay for, and a 24TB drive that dies before I can fill it isn't on my shopping list.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm running 4 20TB barracudas i got last summer in a RAID 10 for my truenas. I'd do it more efficiently if I had planned with enough space to move the data and redo the RAID, this raid has existed for almost a decade. It's reliable, used daily (24/7 uploads in soulseek), currently sharing out 36 TB of movies/music/tv series around 1TB data upload per day.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I have 4 or 5 Seagate ironwolves (~20 tb each) in my NAS and they've been great but they're hard drives. I don't have the data on how they'll fair long term wise.

I need to move from my Synology NAS to something custom built so I can do a better raid set up that lets me use my full drives instead of just the amount equal to my smallest drive.