[GTALUG] Which NAS harddisk? -- Seagate or Western Digital

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Sun Mar 7 20:12:03 EST 2021


Thanks.  Staying away from Seagate a bit more.
--William

On 3/7/21 6:59 PM, Stefan Kloppenborg wrote:
> Backblaze, which is a cloud storage/backup provider, publishes drive 
> failure statistics for their roughly 160,000 drives. They mostly use 
> fairly large drives (lots of 12-16 TB) from a few different 
> manufacturers (including lots of Seagate drives). Their stats may or 
> may not be of use to you when selecting new drive(s), but it’s 
> interesting to see anyways.
>
> https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html#quarterly-stats-blog-articles
>
>
>> On Mar 7, 2021, at 6:29 PM, William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> 2 of my harddisks are failing, so I need to buy something fairly 
>> soon.  I haven't bought a harddisk for a long time. Has Seagate 
>> improved their quality?  Or, should I go with Western Digital as I 
>> usually do?
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