-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2018-02-26 at 17:45 -0800, L A Walsh wrote:
I have some more information, that I want to post, even if you don't use it now... .
First is on HD manufacturer reliability.
Please look at the charts (they have them by quarter), but this one seems to show the last 3 years (2015-2017):
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175089-who-makes-the-most-reliable-hard-...
Interesting.
I am hoping to get this off quickly, so excused any raw wording -- but the manfacturer with the worst reliabilty (and not just over the past 3 years, this has been true since at least 2000 and probably going back to 1990 and before).
Out of the manufacturers that are still around today, Seagate has consistently been near the bottom in quality.
The chart shows Seagate shows annualized failure rates as high as 29.08%. Most are under 3%, but it seems to have, _nearly_ above 1%/year for listed drives.
Well, it is curious, but the only drives that failed on me were not Seagates. None of the seagates I have had failed while in use, with perhaps two exceptions: One that was bad since day one, so I had it was replaced by the shop. Another developed failures later (start of the bath curve) and was replaced on warranty. Both were 500 GB units, so long ago. A laptop drive that failed after perhaps 4 or 5 years of use, so that could be normal. I replaced without data loss with same model. The worst I had was Fujitsu long ago. Similar experiences with people I know, so we all switched to Seagate.
In this chart, Hitachi has the lowest failure rate followed by Toshiba. This chart doesn't show disks by other manufacturers.
My normal shop doesn't even have Hitachi. It has Toshiba, though. My secondary shop has one Hitachi: 3 TB - Hitachi HGST Deskstar NAS, black, 136€
I can't speak for their consumer line's longevity, as I never had them long enough to know, but as I wrote earlier, their consumer drives were more likely to have a fairly wide spread on RPMs.
Well, of course all the disks I personally bought are consumer drives. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlqVWLMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WyeQCdHKoaR08PnqUPHe8g5vC0xfyP IKoAnjvC5IdX5Ud/xzBtpOKtwVLzlXxD =DxlL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----