When I get a chance next time I'm at work I'll attach a link to the piles of dead seagates I've been collecting for target practice.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 22:09 <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bloss <ianlin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've had more Seagates die over time than any other brand, I would > > recommend getting your money back asap and finding another brand. > > > > I work IT at a school and we no longer purchase seagate drives for > > their failure rate. > > A friend of mine is using Seagate ES drives since many years in his > servers. He replaces all his drives after the five years warranty time > is up and as far as I can remember he told me, that he never had a > failure with all of his drives. He gave me two of his old drives and > I used them for some years in a RAID-1 array in one of my machines > till I replaced them with SSDs recently. They are still ok. The only > bad thing about these drives is their high noise level. Server drives > are usually located in a server room and not in an office and so they > are not designed to be silent. :-) > > -- > Regards > wabe > >
