I installed cctv DVRs and NVRs for 15 years featuring hard drives from multiple manufacturers.

Out of hundreds, a single WD drive has failed (a 4tb WD red that spun for 7 years before failure) and nearly every of multiple dozens of Seagate drives failed. The NVRs/DVRs that I used these Seagate 3tb drives in all failed within 12 months of deployment and cost our company tens of thousands of dollars in service calls to replace them, all at our own cost due to being in the warranty period.

Never again. WD for life.

Yeah, I lost 2 of the damn things. They were free, but damn.

iirc I bought 6 of them and all 6 failed in the first 3 years lol

I used a bunch of them for quite a few years. A handful of them did die less then a year after putting them in an mdadm raid5, but I never had any issues RMA’ing them so it never bothered me very much. At some point the replacements + remaining ones stopped failing so often, and I still have a few that were in recent use up until I retired the server they were in a few months ago – at least one or two of said drives were in operation since they were new drives / 3TB was a good price point.

But yeah, they weren’t great. Honestly I don’t remember any brand’s 3TB drives being all that great, and really it made more sense to buy based on the RMA process of the company then expecting any sort of actual reliability.

Possibly the most unreliable drive there’s ever been.

I had one of these, didn’t last too long before problems started showing. Got rid of it before it died.

Same here. In the last 20 years, this drive is the only one that ever failed on me. (I had 2 of those actually, both failed around the same time.)

i’m a desktop user and i had 2 of those fail

They’re not that bad. WD/HGST is just a lot better.

I am using the 8TB model in my QNAP. So, far no issues. The drives were previously used in a QNAP NAS per the seller.

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.

I use one for Plex and it has 4 years and 9 months up time

Can confirm. I had three. All failed within a year.

I got burned by some Seagate drives… about 25 years ago. And never bought another. Western Digital for me…

Heh, this particular model is well known for having a high failure rate. Mine did pretty good, considering. I bought four when they were brand new and put them into my server, running OpenSolaris so that I could use ZFS. Ran them for a couple of years, then the server ended up being stored in a metal shed in a forest for five years. Used it for a short while then built a new server. Three of the four disks had a ton of bad sectors, but ZFS came to the rescue and let me transfer everything off without losing a thing - it just took a while. I used the fourth drive as a backup drive for a few months before it started throwing errors.

I still love Seagate and have always had great luck with them, it’s just this particular model that had issues :P

Seagate Barracuda was so bad it literally became an inside joke in our school.

One of the classrooms had like around 10 computers, every single one of them had Barracuda on board.

I remember the PC I was working on started malfunctioning, so I jokingly slammed my desk with a fist, and to my surprise, the PC spit out a bluescreen, soon it turned out to be a HDD failure. I knew I wasn’t in any trouble, I didn’t even hit the table that hard.

The very next day, the PC on a completely different side of the room failed to boot. Yep, another Barracuda bit the dust that day.

Fast forward the next six or so days, all HDDs were dead. Literally all of the Barracudas we had died within a week.

It was so funny, because one of my classmates even said that mounting these Barracudas on school PC’s was a bad idea, because he had one at home before and it died on him, but we all thought that he was just talking shit.