Why i am done with Seagate for the last time

[Justintime]

Nothing will EVER convince me to get a Seagate drive again, even if it was £20 for 5tb.
So far for January to March:

So called 'enterprise' 5tb Constellations :

Of 20 we have, 10 in each nas, 7 (4 and 3) have died, all developed bad sectors, of the replacements, 4 failed rebuild and developed bad sectors, so call that 11.

5Tb freeagent or whatever it is, we have 9, 4 have died of bad sectors, none have been dropped or mishandled.

We have 2 small 4 bay Qnap nas with 3tb Seagate drives just for backing up the music departments projects, bad sectors in 3 drives, 2 and 1.

We mostly use WD reds and WD RE drives, of 30, one has developed a single bad sector in January and nothing since. i am expecting the Seagates to die off and thats it for them, gonna replace any personal dead Seagate with another brand, why we buy them over and over i do not know, guess its the price but i've complained for years about it and finally they're listening to me, WD from now on.

 

[Justintime]

My point is everyone should go and buy a Seagate drive cause they're cheap and reliable, thats my point.

 

[Justintime]

I think it's perpetuation of the belief that Seagate are inherrently bad drives, which looking at the OP's sample would appear so...

That said, Seagate gained their reputation for Lada-esque drives for a couple of 3TB models didn't they?

Either way, it's been enough for me to give them a swerve for a large number of years also. I too use WD Reds for my mass storage needs, and the pair of 3TBs I have in the Microserver have been spinning since Feb 2013 without so much as a wobble.

Its not only this sample, my bosses keep buying seagates when they get offers on them and we're constantly changing them, much much more than other brands, though Seagates are a minority brand here. Our worst ever time was with the 1.5tb ones, though the 5tb ones are looking to be as bad.

 

[Justintime]

Drives from all manufacturers fail - it's just a question of when. Certain models from all manufacturers have had higher failure rates - doesn't mean every single model from that manufacture will.

We had way over average on the 1tb enterprise and desktop models, the 1.5s were sometime like 300% failure rate (yes, every replacement died quickly, to the point of not bothering to get rma) The 2tb ones had way over average and the 3 and 5tb ones seem to be going the same way, this is a sample rate going into the hundreds over the years, Hitachi, WD and Samsung before they were bought by Seagate did not have close to the failure rate of the Seagates, now i can't even trust a Samsung disk.

I squirm when i open an order and see a Seagate drive, i expect an early death and usually am not dissapointed.

 

[Justintime]

Another 5tb constellation dropped out with about 60 bad sectors yesterday. Teacher came today to say her 3tb portable started clicking over the long weekend and she lost about 20% of her work to corruption.