HDDs from Hitachi are the most reliable
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John
That's for the forum section only. News are posted on the front page manually.
John
... The 3TB drives are still at 9%, compared to 1% for Hitachi and 3% for WD. It doesn't disprove the fact that Hitachi also performed much better than both WD and Seagate for all capacities.
John
Does having unreliable 3TB drives somehow excuse Seagates poor reliability stats then? 3TB is a pretty damn common hard drive size, and one that makes sense in the prize/capacity sense.
John
No, but the article neatly breaks each drive into its own graph, so you can see for yourself how reliable each of the models have been for this company.
I said I agree the headline is a tad misleading, but then it would appear that, for this company and their use, Hitachi has been a... ****ofalot more reliable than both Seagate and WD, regardless of the models in question.
nick0323
Unsurprised. Out of 150 new base units at work with all Seagate HDD's we've had 8 fail with cyclic redundancy checks. They're pretty damn quick at repairing the HDD's and sending them back out though I'll admit!
elkosith
I just lost the OS partition on a 160 GB seagate hard disk. It's quite old indeed, almost 8 years already. I moved the OS to a Hitachi
EspHack
well i think hitachi being the less known /used hdds have a clear advantage here
KissSh0t
Most of my hard drives are from 2005.. they are all Western Digital. and a Green Series Western Digital from 2009.
Western Digital are very reliable in my experience... I cannot say much for Seagate though... all my seagate drives have died.
anticupidon
There is something fishy about this article,some data seems ...too well presented in a certain fashion,and lacks some important details.
I call misleading....but what do i know about storage,the masters at Backblaze seems that they are on someone's payroll.
lucidus
Lol .. same here with my seagates. Anything purchased after 2005 is dead. I even have to pay a premium for WD over here .. anything but Seagate please!! :P
anticupidon
It will be very ,very nice to hear some hands on opinions from a data recovery house,they can tell you what is what about each brand.
Storage will fail,it is a fact.Getting the data back from a specific drive/brand is where one should look,at least form end user point if view.A datacenter will have another opinion,for sure.
Did anyone knew that last drivers from WD are a royal pain in the arse to recover data from?
Andrew LB
I have 2x 150gb WD Raptors that have been running 24/7 in raid 0 for 8 years. I bought them in 2006 and they're still running great.
I've also got 2x WD Black 1tb RE drives, running 24/7 for about 5 years. No issues.
And another 2x 640gb WD Black drives that have about 6 years on them. Running fine.
I deal with customers problematic computers on a daily basis and from my experience, the lease reliable hard drives are Toshiba. Second would be Seagate. Winner would be WD.
Fender178
I have a 750gb Segate Barracuda drive that is my system drive for over 3 years now almost 4 and never had any problems with it. I had only 1 drive die on me which was an old 200gb IDE segate drive it wasnt completely dead it was in the middle of the dying phase. I thought of getting a 3tb Seagate Barracuda 3tb drive but i am going to reconsider my decision and look at other drives such as the hitachi drives or the WD caviar black.
TheDeeGee
I miss them Samsung SpinPoints 🙁
tugCREW
different people different experiences. Seagate has been good and sometimes bad.
k3vst3r
people who had drives from 2006 etc.. what's power on hours?
bit pointless stating you've had drive this many years an still works etc, if it's been turned off 60% of the time
Fender178
When I am not in school I usually have my computer turned on about 12hrs or so each day. Some times more and some times less depending on what I am doing on it. Also if I am working it is even less.
CPC_RedDawn
Failure rates and bad press can be attributed to the fact that THEY SELL THE MOST UNITS!!!!
This seriosuly baffles me how people can find this hard to understand.
A product that sells by the bucket load WILL have higher failure rates than other companies similar products as there are more of them in circulation.
Seagate are a good make, their drives are good quality and make up for probably the most HDD's sold out of all the companies.
Its like people who thought OCZ SSD's were rubbish... erm probably because they sold A LOT of them and people seem to view their bad experiences more so than their good ones. Hence the bad reputation online.
Personally I wouldn't touch an Hitatchi drive if you gave it me for free, but then again that is probably because I too have been influenced by the bass press they get from customers stating their bad experiences with them.
k3vst3r
I have seagate 250GB 7200.10 still kicking about
-Tj-
lol 😀
