What hard drive lasts the longest/fails fastest?
techAdmin
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Great info, for those of you deciding on which hard drive to get:

blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/

blog.backblaze.com/2013/11/12/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/

blog.backblaze.com/2013/12/04/enterprise-drive-reliability/

A picture is worth a thousand words:


I stopped buying seagates years ago, precisely because of the failure rates I experienced first hand. They used to be good too, which is sad.

These struck me as particularly and spectacularly bad:

:: Code ::
Seagate Barracuda 7200
(ST31500341AS)    1.5TB    539    3.8    25.4%

Seagate Barracuda Green
(ST1500DL003)    1.5TB    51    0.8    120.0%

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anticapitalista
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Luckily I have some old seagates working ok.
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