i own two 4tb Segate hdds. one has been used for more than one and half years without any issue and other one was just recently purchased. i own another 2tb for NAS which been used for the last 2 and half years and it's still working fine without any issue

i own other two of 2tb WD green. one has operated for 306808 hours. its still working fine. and other one used for merely 3000 hours had several failures so i had to put it away.

as far as i am concerned ,Segate isn't as bad as some people claimed.

unfortunately a few single anecdotes of good luck cant be a big enough set for any kind of numbers. But when you think about it, 1 in 6 is not good. that's a 16.6 failure rate if my math is correct. ouch!

Here is a interesting read about drive failure statistics.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-dri ... y-q3-2015/

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i would really like to see the DOM (date of manufacture)
306808 / 24 /365 = around 35 years

I take it back then, These Seagates are ahead of their time...

I think you are a 'half full' rather than 'half empty' person . Last year the Seagate ST3000DM001 had a failure rate of 43%, so that means 57% of people are very happy with their Seagate.....

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And the other 43% had to come pay our high recovery prices, and now are very unhappy.

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considering that seagate is the second largest HDD supplier in world, then... we are talking about a lot of people that got hurt

We've bought high capacity Seagate drives (e.g. 4,5, & 6 TB) . . . and used them ONCE to image drives. Then we erased and checked them. All had significant amounts of pending reallocated sectors, so we retired them. Brand new drives! No point in sending them to the factory for green-labeled "refurbished" drives, which we truest even less.

I can only imagine how these things would fare in a server or with heavy-duty operation.

Close to 50% of the drives we see for recovery are Seagates now.

I would like to thank them for helping our business.

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