So how many more stories of these drives being absolute garbage do we all have?

Of all the drives I’ve ever owned. From Hitachi, Maxxtor, Seagate, Western Digital and others…this is the only one I’ve had that died. Apparently this is a trend with these particular drives?

This one is currently a paperweight

  • @[email protected]BEnglish
    1•10 months ago

    Whew… I have 6 of the ST3000DM008-2DM166 in a RAID array. And to be honest, they were only so-so, so I’m not actually relieved that mine are newer/different. I had a couple of failures over the years. I started with 5.

    1. gone
    2. gone
    3. Still ok, >36k hours
    4. gone
    5. Now a hot spare, >36k hours, 8 Reallocated Sectors

    1 out of 5 is still in mainline operation, one is my hot spare.

    3 out of 5 failed and got sent back to Seagate for a refurb

    1 of my replacement drives had an “unexpected sense” that I guess corrected itself after a rebuild.

    4.1 years of operation

    I’m definitely not thrilled.