it's sad how far Seagate's reputation has fallen. In the early 90's having Seagate SCSI drives in your pc was a point of pride!
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2025
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Probably dies before you even get it half full
I've got WD drives with like 10+ years of power on time...still works. All, and I'm not joking, of my HDD failures have been seagates. I lost 4 drives and the 5th and final seagate I purchased, started showing errors just a year into its life. Haven't bought one since.
I think the IronWolf drives are generally OK. But what's inside this is probably going to be a cheapo Barracuda drive.
You generally get what you pay for. If a drive is an amazing bargain, I wouldn't trust it with anything I needed. If you're just using it as another replaceable drive in a RAID array then whatever, I guess.
When I bought Seagate externals, the Barracuda line only went up to 8TB so anything above that was an Ironwolf or Exynos. Do you know if that's still the case?
Labelled as Barracudas, but who knows what they were before they were relegated to this...
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1jfcgt6/26tb_seagate_from_bb_is_a_barracuda/
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Seagate and Best buy. I'm double pass.
Too bad it's Seagate.
If it means anything, I have been using Seagate Ironwolf HD's in my NAS for years now after having to switch to them when HGST went under, and I have yet to have any issues with one yet. I think I have 5 right now.
5 is such a tiny sample size. Back blaze over and over again shows how many Seagate models are horrible. The last reports has the worst Seagate model they use at 9.47% failure. No thanks.
Is this model from seagate prone to fail?
That's a pretty good price. I don't know how much I trust Seagate to get a drive that big though.
The data hoarder in me says yes. The realist says I'm only using 4TB out of 14 right now.
Is that a good idea? I mean having all of that storage on one component? Wouldn't it be safer to split that data onto separate drives?
Actually, large drives like this make perfect sense in RAID arrays. Just make sure your using at least RAID 6 with drives this big - the rebuild times are scary long. I run a mix of 18TB drives in my home server and the key is having a solid backup strategy, not avoiding large drives. No matter the brand, always assume any drive will fail.
Probably a good candidate for drive shucking. Can get a good, potentially enterprise grade, hard drive for cheaper than the drive alone would cost. Then stick it into a NAS.
Ahh, yeah I see what you're saying.
I would wait. There have been recent developments about heating the HD surface with a laser to increase storage capacity. I think it's wise to see how this develops and wether it causes problems.
A price decent enough to make me consider getting a Seagate
Please, please let this propagate to ~10 TB drives.
what you even filling it with ? unless you are running a YT channel