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Useless article. No dates, prices, specs other than the capacity, etc. It does mention this is a new HAMR platform that might reach 100TB in a drive someday.
Now if only those 20tb HDDs came back down in price, some are sitting at twice to three times their original release price.
It’s getting difficult to care about hardware I’ll never actually see.
Have Seagate sorted their shit out? I have never had any other manufactures drives fail so often in the last 25 or so years. I have them a fresh chance about 10 years ago in a PS4 and guess what? It failed.
This just sounds like 44Tb of fucking about restoring data to me.
I’ve been running their IronWolf Pros for several years now. No issues.
It’s just my opinion but the “brand war” on HDDs is a little overblown in my opinion. I too recall one or two periods where Seagate got bad pr for quality issues, but I’m not concerned that 10 years later any HDD I buy from them is going to croak as soon as it’s half full. There’s no way they would still be in business if that image is true. I think many times if there is a different in quality between brands it’s the difference between 99.999% and 99.998% - gasp! double the failure rate! - and then it evens out again.
Aaaand it’s gone
The last time I had a Seagate drive, it was 1.2GB
I’ve only ever had one Seagate drive in my life and it failed in the first 3 months.
Right, I’m never going back to Seagate. Their drives are shit. Although I do have 2 IronWolf 10TBs setup in raid and they have been going nearly 8 years nonstop now.
I don’t understand the hate against Seagate. I’ve only had Seagate in my PCs and none have failed for me in the span of almost two decades. In fact, the first ones I had are still around not having failed yet.
Seagate drives are like crows - if you don’t get along with one, they tell their friends and harass you. For any given user, either Seagate drives are perfectly fine and last ages no matter what is done to them, or every single one they touch will self destruct with the lightest use for no reason. That it really does seem to vary by user rather than specific models or production runs is the baffling part.
lmao that is baffling indeed 😆
That’s the thing I am trying to point out. Like if you get lucky some of their models appear near perfect and seem to keep lasting forever.
But I’ve experienced the other side of the coin where I had a hard hardware failure on a hdd, the warranty and replacement process was insanely painful. Then when I finally got a replacement it also had a failure. Same painful replacement process. The 3rd one wasn’t even the same model but at least it worked.
One of the sister drives of the first one had a hardware failure shortly afterwards. I didn’t even bother going through the RMA process and just migrated to Samsungs.
Or maybe some people just get extremely unlucky? 🤷♂️
I really like my IronWolves. They never gave me issues so far.
Probably like $4k each.
Are there really articles for every completely expected tech advance like this?
Its not like the people will get it. Just useless slop companies.
Literally nobody in the consumer market will care, and the DC crowd won’t buy this until they can prove failure rates.
The consumer market will care. They’ll just be priced so far out of the market, it’ll be unrealistic of them to ever hope to buy one.
