HGST sell the best drives. I used to buy lots of wd and seagate but the failure rates were too high
I’ve long used nothing but HGST drives for my customers. Confirms my own personal experience that Seagates are THE worst drives. WDs hit or miss, with enough misses I gave up on them too. Not happy WD bought HGST, either.
Also, I NEVER buy so-called bare-bones OEM drives, only drives in retail packaging, even though they’re more expensive and harder to find. I had so many failures no matter who I bought them from that I figured warehouse pickers everywhere just dumped them in bins like kindling chips and if a few dropped on the floor here and there during order fulfillment, oh well.
Now, though, I’m just bailing on HDs all together and going for Samsung 850 EVO SSDs.
Kool. Where is similar SSD info?
I don’t see their definition of a drive failure.
Tech ping
This is what you do with your HD after it has failed.
Platter racing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zSV8DMMs7c
I have dozens of high capacity arrays in service, to the tune of around 900TB, spanning roughly 1500 mechanical disks in just one data center. I can say without reservation that the most reliable consumer level SATA drives available are Seagate Constellation series drives. There are others that are just as reliable, but they are higher end Seagate SAS drives. For low end arrays I use for archiving, the Constellation SATA drives are by FAR the most reliable. In RAID 60 clusters, these drives get hammered constantly, in brutal fashion, and nothing else on the market even comes close to their survival rate. They are a bit more pricey than others, but they end up the lower cost option in the long run... they just take a beating and keep on spinning
Oh, and I forgot to mention.. although that is a rather large sampling of data used in the analysis, you have to remember the failure curve on drives is very dramatic at a given age. For a proper test, average age won’t work. All drives need to be spun up at the beginning at the same time for accurate MTBF data. The average age isn’t quite as accurate as you would think because of the dramatic reliability curve dropoff and a given age (varies by drive a LOT). The failure curve is so far from flat, that average age isn’t all that useful for this purpose.
Interesting. I have had many drives in the past. Very few have actually failed before they were replaced to increase capacity. I think my luck with drives is at least partially because I am absolutely religious regarding backups.
If I weren’t properly backed up, I’m sure I’d have had more failures, because Murphy, the God of Entropy would be more interested in looking in my direction.
Thanks for posting this, Utilizer.
I believe I know someone at HGST, I remember him telling me about the new helium drives a few years back...