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Damn, I have a 12 disk RAID-Z2 with that, almost all of them failed in about 1~2 years, luckily because of Z2, I didn't lose any data. I'll never buy seagate again.
Back in the day I used IBM drives and they were super reliable. Too bad they stopped making hard drives and all the Maxtors, Seagates, Hitachis, and WDs came along with all their crap.
Damn, I have a 12 disk RAID-Z2 with that, almost all of them failed in about 1~2 years, luckily because of Z2, I didn't lose any data. I'll never buy seagate again.
Back in the day I used IBM drives and they were super reliable. Too bad they stopped making hard drives and all the Maxtors, Seagates, Hitachis, and WDs came along with all their crap.
I could have sworn it was a similar 1.5TB drive that most infamous. Ah well.
You're probably thinking of the Barracuda 7200.11's event-log suicide-roulette firmware bug. It was the first time I ever had to update the firmware of a fixed disk, and I remember it being a huge pain since the revised "SD1A" firmware came with a brand new bug and had to immediately updated again: - https://msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate... - https://www.anandtech.com/show/3482 - https://en.wik…
At my previous employer we had a 24 disk zfs storage server built using these disks (thanks to an external consultant who replaced enterprise grade disks because "they're basically the same"). While they were still under warranty we replaced 50% of them and after warranty 100% of them were replaced using another brand.
I do make an effort to source them from as many different batches as possible, though - based on a DeskStar (“DeathStar”) experience a couple of decades ago. And there have been occasional bad batches for many models.
(The iirc 500MB DeathStar and this 3TB seagate are special in having mostly bad batches)
In 2012 I was working at the Internet Archive. I remember the 2011 Thailand floods restricted the supply of hard disks and pushed up prices. The best deal we could find was buying these Seagate hard disks as external drives at retail from Costco. We picked up a truck load. Then had somebody with a screw driver remove them all from the enclosures and install them in new servers. The error rate was high, the drives did…
The Thailand story was a cover for the NSA buying a huge number of drives for the new data facility in Utah.
In 2012 I was working at the Internet Archive. I remember the 2011 Thailand floods restricted the supply of hard disks and pushed up prices. The best deal we could find was buying these Seagate hard disks as external drives at retail from Costco. We picked up a truck load. Then had somebody with a screw driver remove them all from the enclosures and install them in new servers. The error rate was high, the drives did…
Dropbox (or maybe BackBlaze?) called that "shucking".
In 2012 I was working at the Internet Archive. I remember the 2011 Thailand floods restricted the supply of hard disks and pushed up prices. The best deal we could find was buying these Seagate hard disks as external drives at retail from Costco. We picked up a truck load. Then had somebody with a screw driver remove them all from the enclosures and install them in new servers. The error rate was high, the drives did…
Dropbox (or maybe BackBlaze?) called that "shucking".
I just added a photo to the Wikipedia article: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ST3000DM001_as_exter...
In 2012 I was working at the Internet Archive. I remember the 2011 Thailand floods restricted the supply of hard disks and pushed up prices. The best deal we could find was buying these Seagate hard disks as external drives at retail from Costco. We picked up a truck load. Then had somebody with a screw driver remove them all from the enclosures and install them in new servers. The error rate was high, the drives did…
The Thailand story was a cover for the NSA buying a huge number of drives for the new data facility in Utah.
(Wikipedia page on the facility in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center)
