never had a Seagate drive last more than two years
Their consumer stuff is garbage, their enterprise stuff is top tier. Seagate exos is genuinely excellent.
Same here.
I have, very tentatively, come around to Seagate again. I’ve definitely been burned years ago, but the last 5-7 or so years they seem to have been doing better.
I have an earlier 14TB drive from them that’s iirc about 6 years old now and still doing good
That’s funny. It was the drives of theirs that I bought in that same timeframe that made me swear them off
I don’t trust Seagate with my data.
Is that a tempting price to extract the drive?
Maybe, the closest I could find for manufacturer recertified was about $400, but it’s an enterprise drive sooo it’ll be more reliable than whatever consumer drive is in there
The biggest thing though is if it’s SMR or not, if it is it’s definitely not worth the ~70 bucks in savings, but I haven’t been able to confirm it yet
