Seagate 3TB HDDs has huge Failure rates

damn I have 2 of those in my Synology NAS. They work quite well for almost 2 years. Hope it will not fail on me...:bang:

 

Took liberty and checked one of our stores which has statistics for defects:
ST3000DM001 - 5.4% defect rate.
ST3000VX000 - 5.2% defect rate.
Those are older made from 2011, but one has to have enough samples and enough time to see what's going on.

 

i have 1 in my media server. however it is backed up onto an identical drive which is left unconnected

 

This is why I never considered to buy Seagate, I always go with Western one, so far never fails me once even old HDD 5 years passed.

 

I wouldn't worry about it, these 'failure rates' are based on stress testing that the average home user will never put their hard drives through.

 

Interesting-

I have a Seagate 3TB drive for over 2 years now (or was it more i can't remember when i got it) and never had a problem with it. However a WD 2TB drive did fail on me after a year so yeah, who's paying for this analysis?

 

Why People still buy seasuck after a long history of screwing the customer, I don't understand.

 

Beats me, I have WD 80GB black PATA from 2003, and its still kicking.

 

Rates aren't that super bad, still there is reason why I have only WD HDDs.

 

As far as I remember I've only ever had 1 hdd fail on me & it was many years ago, I still have hdd's from 20 years ago WD's, WD Raptors, Seagates, old scsi drives ,even old 500MB & 1GB drives that still work, I was looking through them a couple of weeks ago lol how did we ever manage with those monsters. I do have a 3TB Seagate I bought for storage a year ago when I built my current rig & hope it doesn't fail would be a nightmare !.

 

SSD's are the future. Forget those clunky dying 3TB HDDs

 

I ordered one of those drive last year and it was dead. Returned it and it was still dead, it wouldn't even spin. I will stick with WD from now on, has I didn't have a bad experience with them yet.

 

Every WD drive I have ever bought since 2001 is still working which is why I won't ever buy another brand of HDD.

 

My 3TB seagate died after 6 months. I don't know what brand is best.

 

Now Samsung is gone out of the Mechanical Drive market, i suggest Western Digital.

 

Still some Samsung drives out there (some are Seagate branded but actually built by Samsung). But yes... best option for hard drives nowadays is WD by far.

 

Every Seagate I have ever owned has failed on me. Its been three years since my last Seagate and I will never use another.

 

Go Hitachi go (now HGST).

 

Not until a 6TB SSD costs the same as 6TB HDD and NAND wear is eliminated they won't be!