Think twice before buying Seagate Barracuda Hard drives!
- Thread starter Digerati
- Start date
To stay with the server nature of the OP, add Samsung SSDs as well: https://blog.algolia.com/when-solid-state-drives-are-not-that-solid/
I go with SSDs on all my personal builds, but still use hard drives for backup storage. But all WDs in recent years (and HGST - owned by WD now).
- Feb 22, 2012
- 205
The Seagate 7200.11 drives have a loooong history of problems. I'm surprised they're even being used in a data center environment.
My guess is when buying a 1000 drives at once, Seagate gives a deal they can't pass up. Plus with built-in redundancy and hot-swappable spares on hand, it is more an annoyance than a data integrity issue - at least until they run out of spares under warranty. :r1:
Sintharius
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I once had a discussion about this article on Bleeping Computer... find it kinda odd that Backblaze would use consumer-grade HDDs for industrial use.
I had a similar discussion with a tech friend of mine and thought it odd too that they were not buying all "enterprise" class drives.
But IMO, it is still a fair report because most of the other drives by the other makers are consumer grade too. And just because they are in data centers, that does not mean they are constantly being thrashed about 24/7/365 as they would be in a busy file server.
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