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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (7 children)

These things are unreliable, I had 3 seagate HDDs in a row fail on me. Never had an issue with SSDs and never looked back.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I mean, cool and all, but call me when sata or m2 ssds are 10TB for $250, then we'll talk.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Lmao the HDD in the first machine I built in the mid 90s was 1.2GB

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

My dad had a 286 with a 40MB hard drive in it. When it spun up it sounded like a plane taking off. A few years later he had a 486 and got a 2gb Seagate hard drive. It was an unimaginable amount of space at the time.

The computer industry in the 90s (and presumably the 80s, I just don't remember it) we're wild. Hardware would be completely obsolete every other year.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

It really was doubling in speed about every 18 months.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My 286er had 2MB RAM and no hard drive, just two 5.25" floppy drives. One to boot the OS from, the other for storage and software.

I upgrade it to 4 MB RAM and bought a 20 MB hard drive, moved EVERY piece of software I had onto it, and it was like 20% full. I sincerely thought that should last forever.

Today I casually send my wife a 10 sec video from the supermarket to choose which yoghurt she wants and that takes up about 25 MB.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I had 128KB of RAM and I loaded my games from tape. And most of those only used 48KB of it.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Avoid these like the plague. I made the mistake of buying 2 16 TB Exos drives a couple years ago and have had to RMA them 3 times already.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

I stopped buying seagates when I had 4 of their 2TB barracuda drives die within 6 months... constantly was RMAing them. Finally got pissed and sold them and bought WD reds, still got 2 of the reds in my Nas Playing hot backups with nearly 8 years of power time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I recently had to send back a Barracuda drive as well. I'm seeing if the Ironwolf drive fares any better.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I have several WDs with almost 15 years of power on time, not a single failure. Whereas my work bought a bunch of Seagates and our cluster was basically halved after less than 2 years. I have no idea how Seagate can suck so much.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The two models, [...] each offer a minimum of 3TB per disk

Huh? The hell is this supposed to mean? Are they talking about the internal platters?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

More than likely

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