So how many more stories of these drives being absolute garbage do we all have?
Of all the drives I’ve ever owned. From Hitachi, Maxxtor, Seagate, Western Digital and others…this is the only one I’ve had that died. Apparently this is a trend with these particular drives?
This one is currently a paperweight
idk ive never had good luck with seagate drives.
i have 10 Ultrastar helium drives and man, those things are bulletproof i love them
In my experience Seagate in general has always been a regretful choice. I will only ever buy WD for the foreseeable future.
It is over a decade old.
How long should a hard drive last, do you suppose?
More than the year it did. It’s been used as a paperweight for close to a decade.
- Soleil (she/her ♀) ( @ethd@beehaw.org ) English1•11 months ago
I am always so blown away by the ridiculous failure rate of the 3TB Barracuda when Seagate also made the 3TB Constellation I’ve been using without a hitch for so many years.
Never owned a Barracuda because the Backblaze report on their failure rates that showed the Barracuda as the worst of the worst came out before I started shopping for “big” hard drives.
Well to be fair that drive is over 10 years old based on the date code
It died about a year after I bought it. It’s been a paperweight ever since
The reason I’ll never buy Seagate drives again…
I’ve still got 8 of these running. They were pulls from external hard drives, still running strong after 6 years.
Barracudas, the B is for bin.
I’ve owned at least 4 of these and dozens of other makes and sizes. Every one of the Seagates died completely and suddenly. All my other retired drives (< 5) were due to increasing smart errors and never actually ceased working
Garbage
Jeejus key riced as an absolute noob few years back was so happy to be able to shuch these and then tragedy struck.
They had similar 4tb drives.
I lost 2 of them. Both died. Plink plink plink dead.
It was lightly used
Seagate drives are unreliable, avoid them!
I’ve had 3 or 4 fail
Seems to me that must have been a great drive. Lasted 10 years, despite the warranty being only three years. I would be happy if all my drives lasted that long.
Thanks for letting us know about your great experience with this drive.
10 years! Amazing!
Possibly the most unreliable drive there’s ever been.
I had one of these, didn’t last too long before problems started showing. Got rid of it before it died.