German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours
German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours
The plot thickens.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54090098
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I had to send a Barracuda drive back recently.
"It's fine" said Seagate's SMART analysis tools.
"Clunk clunk clunk clonk" said the HDD.
I know which of those results I trusted more.
Barracudas are SMR garbage nowadays, they're coasting on their reputation of many years ago when they were actually decent hard drives for the price.
I only wanted it for a Jellyfin drive. The one thing it could have been useful for and it even failed at that.
Seems like you need to pay the extra for an Ironwolf drive to get an actual "just like the good old days" HDD.
Yes, buy NAS or enterprise drives for a NAS, don't buy consumer drives.
…when they were actually decent hard drives for the price.
And had a five year warranty.
Exos are typically still good drives though if you're going for storage.